Secure Energy Services (SES) Competitors

CAE (TSE:CAE) and Secure Energy Services (TSE:SES) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CAE or SES?

Secure Energy Services received 119 more outperform votes than CAE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.99% of users gave Secure Energy Services an outperform vote while only 57.94% of users gave CAE an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CAE	Outperform Votes 354 57.94%	Underperform Votes 257 42.06%
Secure Energy Services	Outperform Votes 473 61.99%	Underperform Votes 290 38.01%

Is CAE or SES more profitable?

Secure Energy Services has a net margin of 5.62% compared to CAE's net margin of -7.39%. Secure Energy Services' return on equity of 50.56% beat CAE's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CAE	-7.39%	-7.43%	2.79%
Secure Energy Services	5.62%	50.56%	8.15%

Which has better earnings and valuation, CAE or SES?

Secure Energy Services has higher revenue and earnings than CAE. CAE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Secure Energy Services, 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
CAE	C$4.34B	1.84	-C$341.80M	-C$1.07	-23.46
Secure Energy Services	C$9.96B	0.39	C$560M	C$2.00	8.05

Does the media favor CAE or SES?

In the previous week, Secure Energy Services had 25 more articles in the media than CAE. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Secure Energy Services and 5 mentions for CAE. Secure Energy Services' average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat CAE's score of 0.72 indicating that Secure Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CAE	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Secure Energy Services	5 Very Positive mention(s)	7 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in CAE or SES?

77.3% of CAE shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.7% of Secure Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of CAE shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Secure Energy Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk & volatility, CAE or SES?

CAE has a beta of 1.91, indicating that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Secure Energy Services has a beta of 2.41, indicating that its share price is 141% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts recommend CAE or SES?

CAE currently has a consensus target price of C$30.60, indicating a potential upside of 21.91%. Secure Energy Services has a consensus target price of C$16.58, indicating a potential upside of 2.95%. Given CAE's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe CAE is more favorable than Secure Energy Services.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CAE	1 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.38
Secure Energy Services	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80

Is CAE or SES a better dividend stock?

CAE pays an annual dividend of C$0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Secure Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. CAE pays out -41.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Secure Energy Services pays out 20.0% 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.

Summary

Secure Energy Services beats CAE on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.