TDW vs. SUN, UGP, ETRN, SM, ENLC, CPG, KNTK, PBF, NFE, and BEPC
Should you be buying Tidewater stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tidewater include Sunoco (SUN), Ultrapar Participações (UGP), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), SM Energy (SM), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), Kinetik (KNTK), PBF Energy (PBF), New Fortress Energy (NFE), and Brookfield Renewable (BEPC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Sunoco (NYSE:SUN) and Tidewater (NYSE:TDW) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Tidewater has a net margin of 11.73% compared to Tidewater's net margin of 2.08%. Tidewater's return on equity of 35.56% beat Sunoco's return on equity.
24.3% of Sunoco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of Tidewater shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.6% of Tidewater shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sunoco has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tidewater has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sunoco currently has a consensus target price of $62.71, suggesting a potential upside of 16.80%. Tidewater has a consensus target price of $98.00, suggesting a potential downside of 8.00%. Given Tidewater's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sunoco is more favorable than Tidewater.
Sunoco has higher revenue and earnings than Tidewater. Sunoco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tidewater, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Tidewater had 13 more articles in the media than Sunoco. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Tidewater and 14 mentions for Sunoco. Sunoco's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Tidewater's score of 0.36 indicating that Tidewater is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sunoco received 32 more outperform votes than Tidewater when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.23% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote while only 60.12% of users gave Sunoco an outperform vote.
Summary
Tidewater beats Sunoco on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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