STEP vs. SHLE, TOT, CFW, PSD, NOA, TCW, EFX, TWM, BNE, and JOY
Should you be buying STEP Energy Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of STEP Energy Services include Source Energy Services (SHLE), Total Energy Services (TOT), Calfrac Well Services (CFW), Pulse Seismic (PSD), North American Construction Group (NOA), Trican Well Service (TCW), Enerflex (EFX), Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure (TWM), Bonterra Energy (BNE), and Journey Energy (JOY). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Source Energy Services (TSE:SHLE) and STEP Energy Services (TSE:STEP) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
Source Energy Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than STEP Energy Services. Source Energy Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than STEP Energy Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Source Energy Services had 5 more articles in the media than STEP Energy Services. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Source Energy Services and 1 mentions for STEP Energy Services. STEP Energy Services' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Source Energy Services' score of 0.08 indicating that Source Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Source Energy Services has a beta of 2.96, meaning that its stock price is 196% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, STEP Energy Services has a beta of 2.25, meaning that its stock price is 125% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Source Energy Services received 32 more outperform votes than STEP Energy Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.95% of users gave Source Energy Services an outperform vote while only 59.69% of users gave STEP Energy Services an outperform vote.
Source Energy Services currently has a consensus target price of C$16.75, indicating a potential upside of 7.44%. STEP Energy Services has a consensus target price of C$5.38, indicating a potential upside of 34.38%. Given Source Energy Services' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe STEP Energy Services is more favorable than Source Energy Services.
17.3% of Source Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.3% of STEP Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.1% of Source Energy Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of STEP Energy Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Source Energy Services has a net margin of 29.37% compared to Source Energy Services' net margin of 5.33%. STEP Energy Services' return on equity of 191.48% beat Source Energy Services' return on equity.
Summary
Source Energy Services beats STEP Energy Services on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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