SES vs. RUS, EIF, BBU.UN, CJT, MDA, ATS, WTE, BDGI, BLDP, and SIS
Should you be buying Secure Energy Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Secure Energy Services include Russel Metals (RUS), Exchange Income (EIF), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN), Cargojet (CJT), MDA (MDA), ATS (ATS), Westshore Terminals Investment (WTE), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), and Savaria (SIS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Secure Energy Services (TSE:SES) and Russel Metals (TSE:RUS) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and profitability.
Secure Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Russel Metals pays an annual dividend of C$1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Secure Energy Services pays out 20.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Russel Metals pays out 42.4% 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.
Secure Energy Services has higher revenue and earnings than Russel Metals. Secure Energy Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Russel Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
47.2% of Secure Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of Russel Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Secure Energy Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Russel Metals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Secure Energy Services currently has a consensus target price of C$13.25, indicating a potential upside of 16.02%. Russel Metals has a consensus target price of C$47.64, indicating a potential upside of 22.38%. Given Russel Metals' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Russel Metals is more favorable than Secure Energy Services.
Secure Energy Services has a beta of 2.55, indicating that its share price is 155% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Russel Metals has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Secure Energy Services had 2 more articles in the media than Russel Metals. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Secure Energy Services and 1 mentions for Russel Metals. Russel Metals' average media sentiment score of 2.00 beat Secure Energy Services' score of 1.60 indicating that Russel Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Russel Metals received 90 more outperform votes than Secure Energy Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.81% of users gave Russel Metals an outperform vote while only 61.76% of users gave Secure Energy Services an outperform vote.
Secure Energy Services has a net margin of 6.12% compared to Russel Metals' net margin of 5.54%. Secure Energy Services' return on equity of 41.83% beat Russel Metals' return on equity.
Summary
Secure Energy Services beats Russel Metals on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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