SES vs. RUS, EIF, BBU.UN, CJT, ATS, MDA, BDGI, WTE, MTL, and BBD.B
Should you be buying Secure Energy Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Secure Energy Services include Russel Metals (RUS), Exchange Income (EIF), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN), Cargojet (CJT), ATS (ATS), MDA (MDA), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), Westshore Terminals Investment (WTE), Mullen Group (MTL), and Bombardier, Inc. Class B (BBD.B). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Secure Energy Services (TSE:SES) and Russel Metals (TSE:RUS) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Secure Energy Services has a beta of 2.58, meaning that its stock price is 158% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Russel Metals has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Russel Metals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Secure Energy Services. Russel Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Secure Energy Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Russel Metals has a net margin of 5.92% compared to Secure Energy Services' net margin of 2.36%. Russel Metals' return on equity of 16.67% beat Secure Energy Services' return on equity.
Secure Energy Services presently has a consensus target price of C$13.25, suggesting a potential upside of 13.64%. Russel Metals has a consensus target price of C$47.64, suggesting a potential upside of 22.89%. Given Russel Metals' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Russel Metals is more favorable than Secure Energy Services.
Russel Metals received 90 more outperform votes than Secure Energy Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.81% of users gave Russel Metals an outperform vote while only 61.76% of users gave Secure Energy Services an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Secure Energy Services had 17 more articles in the media than Russel Metals. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Secure Energy Services and 11 mentions for Russel Metals. Secure Energy Services' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Russel Metals' score of 0.07 indicating that Secure Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Secure Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Russel Metals pays an annual dividend of C$1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Secure Energy Services pays out 61.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Russel Metals pays out 37.0% 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. Russel Metals is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
56.9% of Secure Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of Russel Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Secure Energy Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Russel Metals 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.
Summary
Russel Metals beats Secure Energy Services on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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