SHLE vs. STEP, PSD, CFW, HWO, E, TOT, NOA, TCW, JOY, and BNE
Should you be buying Source Energy Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Source Energy Services include STEP Energy Services (STEP), Pulse Seismic (PSD), Calfrac Well Services (CFW), High Arctic Energy Services (HWO), Enterprise Group (E), Total Energy Services (TOT), North American Construction Group (NOA), Trican Well Service (TCW), Journey Energy (JOY), and Bonterra Energy (BNE). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Source Energy Services (TSE:SHLE) and STEP Energy Services (TSE:STEP) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, risk, media sentiment and community ranking.
Source Energy Services has a beta of 2.96, meaning that its stock price is 196% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, STEP Energy Services has a beta of 2.17, meaning that its stock price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, STEP Energy Services had 4 more articles in the media than Source Energy Services. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for STEP Energy Services and 1 mentions for Source Energy Services. STEP Energy Services' average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Source Energy Services' score of 0.55 indicating that STEP Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Source Energy Services currently has a consensus target price of C$16.75, suggesting a potential upside of 10.56%. STEP Energy Services has a consensus target price of C$5.38, suggesting a potential upside of 26.47%. Given STEP Energy Services' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe STEP Energy Services is more favorable than Source Energy Services.
Source Energy Services received 32 more outperform votes than STEP Energy Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.95% of users gave Source Energy Services an outperform vote while only 59.39% of users gave STEP Energy Services an outperform vote.
Source Energy Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than STEP Energy Services. Source Energy Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than STEP Energy Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Source Energy Services has a net margin of 29.37% compared to STEP Energy Services' net margin of 5.33%. Source Energy Services' return on equity of 191.48% beat STEP Energy Services' return on equity.
17.3% of Source Energy Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.2% of STEP Energy Services shares are held by institutional investors. 11.1% of Source Energy Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of STEP Energy Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Source Energy Services beats STEP Energy Services on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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