TOT vs. TVK, PSI, SCL, TCW, EFX, NOA, CFW, STEP, SHLE, and SDY
Should you be buying Total Energy Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Total Energy Services include TerraVest Industries (TVK), Pason Systems (PSI), Shawcor (SCL), Trican Well Service (TCW), Enerflex (EFX), North American Construction Group (NOA), Calfrac Well Services (CFW), STEP Energy Services (STEP), Source Energy Services (SHLE), and Strad Inc. (SDY.TO) (SDY). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
TerraVest Industries (TSE:TVK) and Total Energy Services (TSE:TOT) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and earnings.
TerraVest Industries has a net margin of 7.95% compared to TerraVest Industries' net margin of 3.85%. Total Energy Services' return on equity of 28.07% beat TerraVest Industries' return on equity.
17.8% of TerraVest Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.3% of Total Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.2% of TerraVest Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Total Energy Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
TerraVest Industries has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Total Energy Services has a beta of 2.09, indicating that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TerraVest Industries pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Total Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. TerraVest Industries pays out 18.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Total Energy Services pays out 43.9% 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.
In the previous week, Total Energy Services had 11 more articles in the media than TerraVest Industries. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Total Energy Services and 3 mentions for TerraVest Industries. TerraVest Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Total Energy Services' score of 0.37 indicating that Total Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Total Energy Services has a consensus target price of C$16.50, indicating a potential upside of 74.60%. Given TerraVest Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Total Energy Services is more favorable than TerraVest Industries.
TerraVest Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Total Energy Services. Total Energy Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TerraVest Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Total Energy Services received 199 more outperform votes than TerraVest Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.51% of users gave Total Energy Services an outperform vote while only 48.95% of users gave TerraVest Industries an outperform vote.
Summary
Total Energy Services beats TerraVest Industries on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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