RES vs. TDW, OII, HLX, NR, DRQ, TTI, OIS, NGS, FET, and GEOS
Should you be buying RPC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RPC include Tidewater (TDW), Oceaneering International (OII), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), Newpark Resources (NR), Dril-Quip (DRQ), TETRA Technologies (TTI), Oil States International (OIS), Natural Gas Services Group (NGS), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), and Geospace Technologies (GEOS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Tidewater (NYSE:TDW) and RPC (NYSE:RES) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and valuation.
95.1% of Tidewater shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.1% of RPC shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Tidewater shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 60.4% of RPC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Tidewater received 56 more outperform votes than RPC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.23% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote while only 54.84% of users gave RPC an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Tidewater had 4 more articles in the media than RPC. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Tidewater and 2 mentions for RPC. Tidewater's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat RPC's score of 1.19 indicating that RPC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tidewater presently has a consensus price target of $98.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.16%. RPC has a consensus price target of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.81%. Given Tidewater's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe RPC is more favorable than Tidewater.
Tidewater has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RPC has a beta of 1.65, indicating that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tidewater has a net margin of 11.73% compared to Tidewater's net margin of 9.95%. RPC's return on equity of 16.24% beat Tidewater's return on equity.
RPC has higher revenue and earnings than Tidewater. RPC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tidewater, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Tidewater beats RPC on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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