TDW vs. RIG, VAL, CWEN, PTEN, SSL, MGY, NOG, CPG, BEPC, and ETRN
Should you be buying Tidewater stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tidewater include Transocean (RIG), Valaris (VAL), Clearway Energy (CWEN), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Sasol (SSL), Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY), Northern Oil and Gas (NOG), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), and Equitrans Midstream (ETRN). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Transocean (NYSE:RIG) and Tidewater (NYSE:TDW) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
In the previous week, Transocean had 16 more articles in the media than Tidewater. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Transocean and 18 mentions for Tidewater. Transocean's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Tidewater's score of 0.23 indicating that Tidewater is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
67.7% of Transocean shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of Tidewater shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of Transocean shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.6% of Tidewater shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Transocean has a beta of 2.83, meaning that its share price is 183% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tidewater has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Transocean currently has a consensus target price of $7.70, suggesting a potential upside of 38.24%. Tidewater has a consensus target price of $93.00, suggesting a potential downside of 12.68%. Given Tidewater's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Transocean is more favorable than Tidewater.
Transocean received 458 more outperform votes than Tidewater when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.18% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote while only 51.72% of users gave Transocean an outperform vote.
Tidewater has a net margin of 11.73% compared to Tidewater's net margin of -13.27%. Transocean's return on equity of 16.52% beat Tidewater's return on equity.
Tidewater has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Transocean. Transocean is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tidewater, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Tidewater beats Transocean on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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