WHD vs. FTI, WFRD, NOV, DNOW, NR, DRQ, SOI, OIS, FET, and DTI
Should you be buying Cactus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cactus include TechnipFMC (FTI), Weatherford International (WFRD), NOV (NOV), DNOW (DNOW), Newpark Resources (NR), Dril-Quip (DRQ), Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure (SOI), Oil States International (OIS), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), and Drilling Tools International (DTI). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas field machinery" industry.
Cactus (NYSE:WHD) and TechnipFMC (NYSE:FTI) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Cactus has a beta of 1.95, indicating that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TechnipFMC has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cactus has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TechnipFMC. Cactus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TechnipFMC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TechnipFMC received 327 more outperform votes than Cactus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.94% of users gave Cactus an outperform vote while only 57.93% of users gave TechnipFMC an outperform vote.
85.1% of Cactus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.6% of TechnipFMC shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.8% of Cactus shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of TechnipFMC shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cactus currently has a consensus price target of $55.14, suggesting a potential upside of 4.44%. TechnipFMC has a consensus price target of $27.21, suggesting a potential upside of 9.22%. Given TechnipFMC's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe TechnipFMC is more favorable than Cactus.
Cactus pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. TechnipFMC pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Cactus pays out 19.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TechnipFMC pays out 42.6% 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. Cactus is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Cactus has a net margin of 14.46% compared to TechnipFMC's net margin of 2.61%. Cactus' return on equity of 22.46% beat TechnipFMC's return on equity.
In the previous week, Cactus had 1 more articles in the media than TechnipFMC. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Cactus and 8 mentions for TechnipFMC. TechnipFMC's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Cactus' score of 1.04 indicating that TechnipFMC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Cactus beats TechnipFMC on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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