AT vs. HTG, GMS, SQZ, TGA, DEC, TLW, EGY, SEPL, PTAL, and SAVE
Should you be buying Ashtead Technology stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ashtead Technology include Hunting (HTG), Gulf Marine Services (GMS), Serica Energy (SQZ), Thungela Resources (TGA), Diversified Energy (DEC), Tullow Oil (TLW), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Seplat Energy (SEPL), PetroTal (PTAL), and Savannah Energy (SAVE). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Hunting (LON:HTG) and Ashtead Technology (LON:AT) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, community ranking and media sentiment.
Hunting pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Ashtead Technology pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Hunting pays out 1,428.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ashtead Technology pays out 370.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Hunting had 8 more articles in the media than Ashtead Technology. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Hunting and 1 mentions for Ashtead Technology. Ashtead Technology's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Hunting's score of 0.59 indicating that Hunting is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ashtead Technology has a net margin of 19.53% compared to Ashtead Technology's net margin of 12.60%. Hunting's return on equity of 24.89% beat Ashtead Technology's return on equity.
Hunting has higher revenue and earnings than Ashtead Technology. Hunting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ashtead Technology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hunting has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ashtead Technology has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hunting currently has a consensus price target of GBX 407, indicating a potential downside of 7.06%. Ashtead Technology has a consensus price target of GBX 775, indicating a potential downside of 11.93%. Given Ashtead Technology's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Hunting is more favorable than Ashtead Technology.
59.2% of Hunting shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Ashtead Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 17.8% of Hunting shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Ashtead Technology shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hunting received 433 more outperform votes than Ashtead Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Ashtead Technology an outperform vote while only 59.65% of users gave Hunting an outperform vote.
Summary
Hunting beats Ashtead Technology on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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