TDW vs. SUN, UGP, ETRN, SM, ENLC, CPG, KNTK, PBF, NFE, and BEPC
Should you be buying Tidewater stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tidewater include Sunoco (SUN), Ultrapar Participações (UGP), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), SM Energy (SM), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), Kinetik (KNTK), PBF Energy (PBF), New Fortress Energy (NFE), and Brookfield Renewable (BEPC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Sunoco (NYSE:SUN) and Tidewater (NYSE:TDW) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.
Tidewater has a net margin of 11.73% compared to Tidewater's net margin of 2.08%. Tidewater's return on equity of 35.56% beat Sunoco's return on equity.
Sunoco received 32 more outperform votes than Tidewater when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.23% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote while only 60.12% of users gave Sunoco an outperform vote.
Sunoco has higher revenue and earnings than Tidewater. Sunoco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tidewater, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
24.3% of Sunoco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of Tidewater shares are held by institutional investors. 9.6% of Tidewater shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sunoco presently has a consensus price target of $62.71, suggesting a potential upside of 16.53%. Tidewater has a consensus price target of $98.00, suggesting a potential downside of 7.11%. Given Tidewater's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sunoco is more favorable than Tidewater.
In the previous week, Tidewater had 7 more articles in the media than Sunoco. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Tidewater and 3 mentions for Sunoco. Sunoco's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Tidewater's score of 0.58 indicating that Tidewater is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sunoco has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tidewater has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Tidewater beats Sunoco on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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