DWSN vs. GEOS, GIFI, SLB, HAL, FTI, NOV, TDW, OII, RES, and HLX
Should you be buying Dawson Geophysical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dawson Geophysical include Geospace Technologies (GEOS), Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI), Schlumberger (SLB), Halliburton (HAL), TechnipFMC (FTI), NOV (NOV), Tidewater (TDW), Oceaneering International (OII), RPC (RES), and Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Dawson Geophysical vs.
Geospace Technologies (NASDAQ:GEOS) and Dawson Geophysical (NASDAQ:DWSN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking and dividends.
Geospace Technologies has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dawson Geophysical has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
57.2% of Geospace Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.9% of Dawson Geophysical shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.6% of Geospace Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of Dawson Geophysical shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Geospace Technologies received 55 more outperform votes than Dawson Geophysical when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.84% of users gave Dawson Geophysical an outperform vote while only 55.10% of users gave Geospace Technologies an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Geospace Technologies and Geospace Technologies both had 2 articles in the media. Dawson Geophysical's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Geospace Technologies' score of 0.62 indicating that Dawson Geophysical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dawson Geophysical has a net margin of -6.55% compared to Geospace Technologies' net margin of -8.86%. Geospace Technologies' return on equity of 4.61% beat Dawson Geophysical's return on equity.
Geospace Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Dawson Geophysical. Geospace Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dawson Geophysical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Geospace Technologies beats Dawson Geophysical on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:DWSN) was last updated on 3/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
