WTTR vs. ARIS, CRAI, CIFR, PSFE, AMPL, ECVT, ADEA, SEAT, MAX, and KFRC
Should you be buying Select Water Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Select Water Solutions include Aris Water Solutions (ARIS), CRA International (CRAI), Cipher Mining (CIFR), Paysafe (PSFE), Amplitude (AMPL), Ecovyst (ECVT), Adeia (ADEA), Vivid Seats (SEAT), MediaAlpha (MAX), and Kforce (KFRC). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Select Water Solutions (NYSE:WTTR) and Aris Water Solutions (NYSE:ARIS) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Select Water Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $11.83, suggesting a potential upside of 18.57%. Aris Water Solutions has a consensus target price of $14.36, suggesting a potential downside of 13.30%. Given Select Water Solutions' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Select Water Solutions is more favorable than Aris Water Solutions.
Select Water Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Aris Water Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Select Water Solutions pays out 36.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aris Water Solutions pays out 50.0% 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. Select Water Solutions is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Select Water Solutions received 299 more outperform votes than Aris Water Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.81% of users gave Select Water Solutions an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Aris Water Solutions an outperform vote.
81.7% of Select Water Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.7% of Aris Water Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.4% of Select Water Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.1% of Aris Water Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Aris Water Solutions had 8 more articles in the media than Select Water Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Aris Water Solutions and 13 mentions for Select Water Solutions. Aris Water Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Select Water Solutions' score of 0.42 indicating that Aris Water Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aris Water Solutions has a net margin of 5.73% compared to Select Water Solutions' net margin of 4.28%. Select Water Solutions' return on equity of 7.46% beat Aris Water Solutions' return on equity.
Select Water Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Aris Water Solutions. Select Water Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aris Water Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Select Water Solutions has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aris Water Solutions has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Select Water Solutions beats Aris Water Solutions on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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