GEOS vs. NGS, OIS, FET, GIFI, DWSN, SLB, HAL, FTI, NOV, and TDW
Should you be buying Geospace Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Geospace Technologies include Natural Gas Services Group (NGS), Oil States International (OIS), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI), Dawson Geophysical (DWSN), Schlumberger (SLB), Halliburton (HAL), TechnipFMC (FTI), NOV (NOV), and Tidewater (TDW). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Geospace Technologies vs.
Natural Gas Services Group (NYSE:NGS) and Geospace Technologies (NASDAQ:GEOS) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
Natural Gas Services Group has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Geospace Technologies has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Natural Gas Services Group received 29 more outperform votes than Geospace Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.75% of users gave Natural Gas Services Group an outperform vote while only 55.10% of users gave Geospace Technologies an outperform vote.
Natural Gas Services Group has a net margin of 10.55% compared to Geospace Technologies' net margin of -4.85%. Geospace Technologies' return on equity of 7.65% beat Natural Gas Services Group's return on equity.
Natural Gas Services Group has higher revenue and earnings than Geospace Technologies. Geospace Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Natural Gas Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Natural Gas Services Group had 1 more articles in the media than Geospace Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Natural Gas Services Group and 1 mentions for Geospace Technologies. Geospace Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Natural Gas Services Group's score of 0.06 indicating that Geospace Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
65.6% of Natural Gas Services Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.2% of Geospace Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of Natural Gas Services Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of Geospace Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Natural Gas Services Group presently has a consensus target price of $26.50, indicating a potential downside of 5.44%. Given Natural Gas Services Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Natural Gas Services Group is more favorable than Geospace Technologies.
Summary
Natural Gas Services Group beats Geospace Technologies on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GEOS) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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