TVK vs. CEU, PSI, EFX, TCW, NOA, TOT, CFW, EFR, PD, and KEL
Should you be buying TerraVest Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TerraVest Industries include CES Energy Solutions (CEU), Pason Systems (PSI), Enerflex (EFX), Trican Well Service (TCW), North American Construction Group (NOA), Total Energy Services (TOT), Calfrac Well Services (CFW), Energy Fuels (EFR), Precision Drilling (PD), and Kelt Exploration (KEL). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
CES Energy Solutions (TSE:CEU) and TerraVest Industries (TSE:TVK) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk and community ranking.
In the previous week, CES Energy Solutions had 16 more articles in the media than TerraVest Industries. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for CES Energy Solutions and 0 mentions for TerraVest Industries. TerraVest Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat CES Energy Solutions' score of 0.00 indicating that CES Energy Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
32.0% of CES Energy Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of TerraVest Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of CES Energy Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 32.5% of TerraVest Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CES Energy Solutions presently has a consensus price target of C$7.69, suggesting a potential upside of 13.22%. Given TerraVest Industries' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CES Energy Solutions is more favorable than TerraVest Industries.
CES Energy Solutions has a beta of 2.46, indicating that its stock price is 146% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TerraVest Industries has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CES Energy Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than TerraVest Industries. CES Energy Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TerraVest Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CES Energy Solutions has a net margin of 8.02% compared to CES Energy Solutions' net margin of 6.52%. TerraVest Industries' return on equity of 26.28% beat CES Energy Solutions' return on equity.
CES Energy Solutions pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. TerraVest Industries pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. CES Energy Solutions pays out 16.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TerraVest Industries pays out 23.1% 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. CES Energy Solutions is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
CES Energy Solutions received 313 more outperform votes than TerraVest Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.25% of users gave CES Energy Solutions an outperform vote while only 48.95% of users gave TerraVest Industries an outperform vote.
Summary
CES Energy Solutions beats TerraVest Industries on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding TVK and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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