SES vs. CAE, SPB, RRX, BLDP, ADN, ALO, NVX, TEV, AXR, and BQE
Should you be buying Secure Energy Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Secure Energy Services include CAE (CAE), Superior Plus (SPB), Raging River Exploration (RRX), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Acadian Timber (ADN), Alio Gold Inc. (ALO.TO) (ALO), NV Gold (NVX), Tervita (TEV), Alexco Resource (AXR), and BQE Water (BQE).
Secure Energy Services vs.
CAE (TSE:CAE) and Secure Energy Services (TSE:SES) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
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.
CAE presently has a consensus price target of C$32.31, indicating a potential downside of 5.46%. Secure Energy Services has a consensus price target of C$17.20, indicating a potential upside of 7.63%. Given Secure Energy Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Secure Energy Services is more favorable than CAE.
77.3% of CAE shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.7% of Secure Energy Services shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of CAE shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Secure Energy Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Secure Energy Services had 15 more articles in the media than CAE. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Secure Energy Services and 11 mentions for CAE. Secure Energy Services' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat CAE's score of 0.33 indicating that Secure Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
CAE pays an annual dividend of C$0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. 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.
Secure Energy Services received 118 more outperform votes than CAE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.83% of users gave Secure Energy Services an outperform vote while only 57.35% of users gave CAE an outperform vote.
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.
Summary
Secure Energy Services beats CAE on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:SES) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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