TDW vs. FTI, NOV, OII, HLX, RES, NR, DRQ, TTI, OIS, and NGS
Should you be buying Tidewater stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tidewater include TechnipFMC (FTI), NOV (NOV), Oceaneering International (OII), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), RPC (RES), Newpark Resources (NR), Dril-Quip (DRQ), TETRA Technologies (TTI), Oil States International (OIS), and Natural Gas Services Group (NGS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
TechnipFMC (NYSE:FTI) and Tidewater (NYSE:TDW) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.
TechnipFMC presently has a consensus target price of $27.21, suggesting a potential upside of 3.88%. Tidewater has a consensus target price of $98.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.16%. Given Tidewater's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe TechnipFMC is more favorable than Tidewater.
Tidewater has a net margin of 11.73% compared to Tidewater's net margin of 2.61%. TechnipFMC's return on equity of 16.24% beat Tidewater's return on equity.
Tidewater has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TechnipFMC. Tidewater is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TechnipFMC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Tidewater had 1 more articles in the media than TechnipFMC. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Tidewater and 5 mentions for TechnipFMC. Tidewater's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat TechnipFMC's score of 1.19 indicating that TechnipFMC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
TechnipFMC has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tidewater has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
96.6% of TechnipFMC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of Tidewater shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of TechnipFMC shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.3% of Tidewater shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
TechnipFMC received 229 more outperform votes than Tidewater when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.23% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote while only 57.93% of users gave TechnipFMC an outperform vote.
Summary
Tidewater beats TechnipFMC on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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