HTG vs. AT, GMS, PFC, CNEL, TAND, PRES, POS, ADES, VLS, and GTC
Should you be buying Hunting stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hunting include Ashtead Technology (AT), Gulf Marine Services (GMS), Petrofac (PFC), China New Energy Limited (CNEL.L) (CNEL), Tan Delta Systems (TAND), Pressure Technologies (PRES), Plexus (POS), ADES International (ADES), Velocys (VLS), and Getech Group (GTC). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Hunting vs.
Ashtead Technology (LON:AT) and Hunting (LON:HTG) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Ashtead Technology has a beta of 0.28, indicating that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hunting has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
75.9% of Ashtead Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.2% of Hunting shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Ashtead Technology shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.2% of Hunting shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ashtead Technology has a net margin of 17.37% compared to Hunting's net margin of 13.47%. Ashtead Technology's return on equity of 23.56% beat Hunting's return on equity.
Hunting received 439 more outperform votes than Ashtead Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Ashtead Technology an outperform vote while only 60.19% of users gave Hunting an outperform vote.
Hunting has higher revenue and earnings than Ashtead Technology. Hunting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ashtead Technology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ashtead Technology had 1 more articles in the media than Hunting. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ashtead Technology and 0 mentions for Hunting. Ashtead Technology's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Hunting'saverage media sentiment score.
Ashtead Technology pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Hunting pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Ashtead Technology pays out 3.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hunting pays out 13.3% 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.
Ashtead Technology presently has a consensus target price of GBX 830, indicating a potential upside of 53.42%. Hunting has a consensus target price of GBX 518, indicating a potential upside of 61.75%. Given Hunting's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hunting is more favorable than Ashtead Technology.
Summary
Ashtead Technology and Hunting tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:HTG) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
