TDW vs. SUN, UGP, ETRN, SM, ENLC, CPG, KNTK, PBF, NFE, and BEPC Should you be buying Tidewater stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tidewater include Sunoco (SUN), Ultrapar Participações (UGP), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), SM Energy (SM), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), Kinetik (KNTK), PBF Energy (PBF), New Fortress Energy (NFE), and Brookfield Renewable (BEPC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Sunoco (NYSE:SUN ) and Tidewater (NYSE:TDW ) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Sunoco received 32 more outperform votes than Tidewater when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.23% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote while only 60.12% of users gave Sunoco an outperform vote.
24.3% of Sunoco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of Tidewater shares are held by institutional investors. 9.6% of Tidewater shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Tidewater has a net margin of 11.73% compared to Tidewater's net margin of 2.08%. Tidewater's return on equity of 35.56% beat Sunoco's return on equity.
Sunoco has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tidewater has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sunoco presently has a consensus target price of $62.71, suggesting a potential upside of 16.53%. Tidewater has a consensus target price of $98.00, suggesting a potential downside of 7.11%. Given Tidewater's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Sunoco is more favorable than Tidewater.
In the previous week, Tidewater had 7 more articles in the media than Sunoco. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Tidewater and 3 mentions for Sunoco. Tidewater's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Sunoco's score of 0.56 indicating that Sunoco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sunoco has higher revenue and earnings than Tidewater. Sunoco 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 Sunoco on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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