WRG vs. CET, QEC, TNZ, YGR, PSD, HWO, E, MCB, PPR, and MGA
Should you be buying Western Energy Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western Energy Services include Cathedral Energy Services (CET), Questerre Energy (QEC), Tenaz Energy (TNZ), Yangarra Resources (YGR), Pulse Seismic (PSD), High Arctic Energy Services (HWO), Enterprise Group (E), McCoy Global (MCB), Prairie Provident Resources (PPR), and Mega Uranium (MGA). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Western Energy Services (TSE:WRG) and Cathedral Energy Services (TSE:CET) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and community ranking.
50.1% of Western Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.1% of Cathedral Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.7% of Western Energy Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.7% of Cathedral Energy Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cathedral Energy Services has a net margin of 1.95% compared to Western Energy Services' net margin of -3.09%. Cathedral Energy Services' return on equity of 6.38% beat Western Energy Services' return on equity.
Western Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Cathedral Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.2%. Western Energy Services pays out -100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cathedral Energy Services pays out 400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Western Energy Services presently has a consensus target price of C$2.75, indicating a potential upside of 2.61%. Cathedral Energy Services has a consensus target price of C$1.73, indicating a potential upside of 96.97%. Given Cathedral Energy Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cathedral Energy Services is more favorable than Western Energy Services.
Cathedral Energy Services has higher revenue and earnings than Western Energy Services. Western Energy Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cathedral Energy Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Western Energy Services had 3 more articles in the media than Cathedral Energy Services. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Western Energy Services and 1 mentions for Cathedral Energy Services. Cathedral Energy Services' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Western Energy Services' score of 0.16 indicating that Cathedral Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cathedral Energy Services received 42 more outperform votes than Western Energy Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.67% of users gave Cathedral Energy Services an outperform vote while only 54.76% of users gave Western Energy Services an outperform vote.
Western Energy Services has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cathedral Energy Services has a beta of 2.64, suggesting that its share price is 164% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cathedral Energy Services beats Western Energy Services on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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