TVK vs. CEU, PSI, EFX, TCW, NOA, TOT, CFW, KEL, CJ, and EFR
Should you be buying TerraVest Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TerraVest Industries include CES Energy Solutions (CEU), Pason Systems (PSI), Enerflex (EFX), Trican Well Service (TCW), North American Construction Group (NOA), Total Energy Services (TOT), Calfrac Well Services (CFW), Kelt Exploration (KEL), Cardinal Energy (CJ), and Energy Fuels (EFR). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
TerraVest Industries (TSE:TVK) and CES Energy Solutions (TSE:CEU) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
CES Energy Solutions has a consensus target price of C$6.11, indicating a potential upside of 5.83%. Given CES Energy Solutions' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CES Energy Solutions is more favorable than TerraVest Industries.
TerraVest Industries has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CES Energy Solutions has a beta of 2.46, meaning that its share price is 146% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CES Energy Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than TerraVest Industries. CES Energy Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TerraVest Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CES Energy Solutions received 311 more outperform votes than TerraVest Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.80% of users gave CES Energy Solutions an outperform vote while only 48.95% of users gave TerraVest Industries an outperform vote.
CES Energy Solutions has a net margin of 7.15% compared to TerraVest Industries' net margin of 6.52%. CES Energy Solutions' return on equity of 24.41% beat TerraVest Industries' return on equity.
TerraVest Industries pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. CES Energy Solutions pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. TerraVest Industries pays out 23.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CES Energy Solutions pays out 19.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. CES Energy Solutions is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
19.2% of TerraVest Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.9% of CES Energy Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 32.3% of TerraVest Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of CES Energy Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, CES Energy Solutions had 4 more articles in the media than TerraVest Industries. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for CES Energy Solutions and 5 mentions for TerraVest Industries. CES Energy Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat TerraVest Industries' score of 0.46 indicating that CES Energy Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
CES Energy Solutions beats TerraVest Industries on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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