PD vs. VDY, DH, BB, LSPD, DV, DCBO, ABST, U, AI, and FSY
Should you be buying Precision Drilling stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Precision Drilling include Vanguard FTSE Canadian High Dividend Yield Index ETF (VDY), DH (DH), BlackBerry (BB), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Dolly Varden Silver (DV), Docebo (DCBO), Absolute Software (ABST), Uranium Participation (U), Atrium Mortgage Investment (AI), and Forsys Metals (FSY). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Precision Drilling vs. Its Competitors
Vanguard FTSE Canadian High Dividend Yield Index ETF (TSE:VDY) and Precision Drilling (TSE:PD) are both computer software companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment and dividends.
Precision Drilling has a consensus target price of C$95.14, suggesting a potential upside of 26.10%. Given Precision Drilling's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Precision Drilling is more favorable than Vanguard FTSE Canadian High Dividend Yield Index ETF.
Vanguard FTSE Canadian High Dividend Yield Index ETF pays an annual dividend of C$1.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Precision Drilling pays an annual dividend of C$0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Precision Drilling pays out 1.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
65.3% of Precision Drilling shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Precision Drilling shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Precision Drilling has higher revenue and earnings than Vanguard FTSE Canadian High Dividend Yield Index ETF.
Precision Drilling has a net margin of 12.53% compared to Vanguard FTSE Canadian High Dividend Yield Index ETF's net margin of 0.00%. Precision Drilling's return on equity of 14.96% beat Vanguard FTSE Canadian High Dividend Yield Index ETF's return on equity.
In the previous week, Precision Drilling had 20 more articles in the media than Vanguard FTSE Canadian High Dividend Yield Index ETF. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Precision Drilling and 0 mentions for Vanguard FTSE Canadian High Dividend Yield Index ETF. Precision Drilling's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Vanguard FTSE Canadian High Dividend Yield Index ETF's score of 0.00 indicating that Precision Drilling is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Precision Drilling beats Vanguard FTSE Canadian High Dividend Yield Index ETF on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:PD) was last updated on 8/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
