CEU vs. TVK, PSI, EFX, TCW, NOA, TOT, CFW, PD, EFR, and BIR
Should you be buying CES Energy Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CES Energy Solutions include TerraVest Industries (TVK), Pason Systems (PSI), Enerflex (EFX), Trican Well Service (TCW), North American Construction Group (NOA), Total Energy Services (TOT), Calfrac Well Services (CFW), Precision Drilling (PD), Energy Fuels (EFR), and Birchcliff Energy (BIR). 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 superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.
TerraVest Industries pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. CES Energy Solutions pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. 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.
CES Energy Solutions has a consensus price target of C$6.70, indicating a potential upside of 11.67%. Given TerraVest Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CES Energy Solutions is more favorable than TerraVest Industries.
19.0% of TerraVest Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.0% of CES Energy Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 32.5% 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 company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, TerraVest Industries had 1 more articles in the media than CES Energy Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for TerraVest Industries and 1 mentions for CES Energy Solutions. TerraVest Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat CES Energy Solutions' score of 0.42 indicating that CES Energy Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TerraVest Industries has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CES Energy Solutions has a beta of 2.46, indicating 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, 65.46% 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 CES Energy Solutions' net margin of 6.52%. TerraVest Industries' return on equity of 24.41% beat CES Energy Solutions' return on equity.
Summary
CES Energy Solutions beats TerraVest Industries on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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