NOV vs. RHI, ULS, FCN, SOFI, SPSC, COHR, PSN, VNT, KVYO, and CFLT
Should you be buying NOV stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NOV include Robert Half (RHI), UL Solutions (ULS), FTI Consulting (FCN), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), SPS Commerce (SPSC), Coherent (COHR), Parsons (PSN), Vontier (VNT), Klaviyo (KVYO), and Confluent (CFLT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Robert Half (NYSE:RHI) and NOV (NYSE:NOV) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
NOV has a net margin of 11.23% compared to NOV's net margin of 5.74%. NOV's return on equity of 22.36% beat Robert Half's return on equity.
Robert Half has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NOV has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
92.4% of Robert Half shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.3% of NOV shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Robert Half shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of NOV shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Robert Half pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. NOV pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Robert Half pays out 63.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NOV pays out 8.0% 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. Robert Half has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years. Robert Half is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Robert Half presently has a consensus price target of $68.14, suggesting a potential downside of 2.86%. NOV has a consensus price target of $24.07, suggesting a potential upside of 25.77%. Given Robert Half's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NOV is more favorable than Robert Half.
NOV has higher revenue and earnings than Robert Half. NOV is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Robert Half, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NOV received 559 more outperform votes than Robert Half when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.38% of users gave NOV an outperform vote while only 61.83% of users gave Robert Half an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NOV had 5 more articles in the media than Robert Half. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for NOV and 12 mentions for Robert Half. NOV's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Robert Half's score of 0.04 indicating that Robert Half is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
NOV beats Robert Half on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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