PSD vs. TOT, CFW, STEP, SHLE, SDY, CWC, E, HWO, AVE, and MCB
Should you be buying Pulse Seismic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pulse Seismic include Total Energy Services (TOT), Calfrac Well Services (CFW), STEP Energy Services (STEP), Source Energy Services (SHLE), Strad Inc. (SDY.TO) (SDY), CWC Energy Services (CWC), Enterprise Group (E), High Arctic Energy Services (HWO), Aveda Transportation and Energy Services (AVE), and McCoy Global (MCB). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Pulse Seismic (TSE:PSD) and Total Energy Services (TSE:TOT) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.
Total Energy Services received 174 more outperform votes than Pulse Seismic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.07% of users gave Pulse Seismic an outperform vote while only 56.51% of users gave Total Energy Services an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Total Energy Services had 14 more articles in the media than Pulse Seismic. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Total Energy Services and 1 mentions for Pulse Seismic. Total Energy Services' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Pulse Seismic's score of 0.21 indicating that Total Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Total Energy Services has a consensus price target of C$16.50, suggesting a potential upside of 74.60%. Given Total Energy Services' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Total Energy Services is more favorable than Pulse Seismic.
Pulse Seismic pays an annual dividend of C$0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Total Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Pulse Seismic pays out 21.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Total Energy Services pays out 43.9% 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.
Pulse Seismic has a net margin of 37.42% compared to Total Energy Services' net margin of 3.85%. Pulse Seismic's return on equity of 47.51% beat Total Energy Services' return on equity.
Total Energy Services has higher revenue and earnings than Pulse Seismic. Pulse Seismic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Total Energy Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
25.6% of Pulse Seismic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.3% of Total Energy Services shares are held by institutional investors. 18.0% of Pulse Seismic shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Total Energy Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pulse Seismic has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Total Energy Services has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Total Energy Services beats Pulse Seismic on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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