ESI vs. PHX, CET, PD, CFW, TOT, URC, KEC, GTE, PNE, and TWM
Should you be buying Ensign Energy Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ensign Energy Services include PHX Energy Services (PHX), Cathedral Energy Services (CET), Precision Drilling (PD), Calfrac Well Services (CFW), Total Energy Services (TOT), Uranium Royalty (URC), Kiwetinohk Energy (KEC), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Pine Cliff Energy (PNE), and Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure (TWM). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
PHX Energy Services (TSE:PHX) and Ensign Energy Services (TSE:ESI) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
27.8% of PHX Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.9% of Ensign Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.9% of PHX Energy Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.8% of Ensign Energy Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
PHX Energy Services presently has a consensus target price of C$11.50, indicating a potential upside of 30.98%. Ensign Energy Services has a consensus target price of C$4.18, indicating a potential upside of 67.14%. Given PHX Energy Services' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ensign Energy Services is more favorable than PHX Energy Services.
Ensign Energy Services received 20 more outperform votes than PHX Energy Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.65% of users gave PHX Energy Services an outperform vote while only 43.97% of users gave Ensign Energy Services an outperform vote.
PHX Energy Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ensign Energy Services. PHX Energy Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ensign Energy Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PHX Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. Ensign Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. PHX Energy Services pays out 40.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ensign Energy Services pays out 109.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
PHX Energy Services has a net margin of 15.02% compared to PHX Energy Services' net margin of 2.30%. Ensign Energy Services' return on equity of 50.97% beat PHX Energy Services' return on equity.
In the previous week, PHX Energy Services had 5 more articles in the media than Ensign Energy Services. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for PHX Energy Services and 1 mentions for Ensign Energy Services. PHX Energy Services' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Ensign Energy Services' score of 0.34 indicating that Ensign Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PHX Energy Services has a beta of 2.37, indicating that its share price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ensign Energy Services has a beta of 3.1, indicating that its share price is 210% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PHX Energy Services beats Ensign Energy Services on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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