EFX vs. TCW, NOA, TVK, CEU, PSI, CFW, TOT, STEP, FCU, and OBE
Should you be buying Enerflex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enerflex include Trican Well Service (TCW), North American Construction Group (NOA), TerraVest Industries (TVK), CES Energy Solutions (CEU), Pason Systems (PSI), Calfrac Well Services (CFW), Total Energy Services (TOT), STEP Energy Services (STEP), Fission Uranium (FCU), and Obsidian Energy (OBE). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Enerflex (TSE:EFX) and Trican Well Service (TSE:TCW) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
Trican Well Service has a net margin of 12.44% compared to Enerflex's net margin of -3.51%. Trican Well Service's return on equity of 23.69% beat Enerflex's return on equity.
In the previous week, Enerflex had 4 more articles in the media than Trican Well Service. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Enerflex and 1 mentions for Trican Well Service. Trican Well Service's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Enerflex's score of 0.43 indicating that Trican Well Service is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Enerflex presently has a consensus price target of C$11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 39.90%. Trican Well Service has a consensus price target of C$5.46, suggesting a potential upside of 27.37%. Given Enerflex's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Enerflex is more favorable than Trican Well Service.
Enerflex pays an annual dividend of C$0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Trican Well Service pays an annual dividend of C$0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Enerflex pays out -11.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Trican Well Service pays out 32.7% 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.
Enerflex has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trican Well Service has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Trican Well Service received 74 more outperform votes than Enerflex when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.73% of users gave Enerflex an outperform vote while only 52.60% of users gave Trican Well Service an outperform vote.
Trican Well Service has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Enerflex. Enerflex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trican Well Service, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
60.7% of Enerflex shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.8% of Trican Well Service shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Enerflex shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Trican Well Service shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Trican Well Service beats Enerflex on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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