TDW vs. NOV, OII, HLX, RES, TTI, OIS, NGS, FET, GIFI, and GEOS
Should you be buying Tidewater stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tidewater include NOV (NOV), Oceaneering International (OII), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), RPC (RES), TETRA Technologies (TTI), Oil States International (OIS), Natural Gas Services Group (NGS), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI), and Geospace Technologies (GEOS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Tidewater vs.
Tidewater (NYSE:TDW) and NOV (NYSE:NOV) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Tidewater presently has a consensus target price of $92.50, indicating a potential upside of 112.35%. NOV has a consensus target price of $19.60, indicating a potential upside of 26.70%. Given Tidewater's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Tidewater is more favorable than NOV.
NOV received 611 more outperform votes than Tidewater when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.97% of users gave NOV an outperform vote while only 60.82% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NOV had 16 more articles in the media than Tidewater. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for NOV and 6 mentions for Tidewater. Tidewater's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat NOV's score of 0.44 indicating that Tidewater is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tidewater pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. NOV pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Tidewater pays out 29.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NOV pays out 18.6% 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.
95.1% of Tidewater shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.3% of NOV shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of Tidewater shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of NOV shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tidewater has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NOV has a beta of 1.66, meaning that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tidewater has a net margin of 13.92% compared to NOV's net margin of 7.16%. Tidewater's return on equity of 18.16% beat NOV's return on equity.
NOV has higher revenue and earnings than Tidewater. NOV is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tidewater, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Tidewater beats NOV on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:TDW) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
