RPC (RES) Competitors

Tidewater (NYSE:TDW) and RPC (NYSE:RES) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in TDW or RES?

95.1% of Tidewater shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.1% of RPC shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Tidewater shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 60.4% of RPC shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has higher valuation & earnings, TDW or RES?

Tidewater has higher earnings, but lower revenue than RPC. RPC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tidewater, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tidewater	$1.01B	2.67	$97.18M	$3.40	15.17
RPC	$1.41B	0.93	$91.44M	$0.43	14.20

Which has more volatility & risk, TDW or RES?

Tidewater has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RPC has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer TDW or RES?

Tidewater received 59 more outperform votes than RPC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.82% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote while only 54.40% of users gave RPC an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Tidewater	Outperform Votes 461 60.82%	Underperform Votes 297 39.18%
RPC	Outperform Votes 402 54.40%	Underperform Votes 337 45.60%

Do analysts prefer TDW or RES?

Tidewater currently has a consensus price target of $92.50, suggesting a potential upside of 79.32%. RPC has a consensus price target of $6.17, suggesting a potential upside of 1.01%. Given Tidewater's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Tidewater is more favorable than RPC.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Tidewater	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60
RPC	1 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.67

Is TDW or RES more profitable?

Tidewater has a net margin of 13.92% compared to RPC's net margin of 6.46%. Tidewater's return on equity of 18.16% beat RPC's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tidewater	13.92%	18.16%	9.40%
RPC	6.46%	8.62%	6.85%

Does the media favor TDW or RES?

In the previous week, Tidewater and Tidewater both had 3 articles in the media. RPC's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Tidewater's score of 0.81 indicating that RPC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Tidewater	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
RPC	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Tidewater beats RPC on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.