Analyzing Secure Energy Services (SECYF) and Its Peers

Profitability

This table compares Secure Energy Services and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Secure Energy Services	N/A	N/A	N/A
Secure Energy Services Competitors	-61.06%	-122.76%	-1.38%

Dividends

Secure Energy Services pays an annual dividend of $0.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Secure Energy Services pays out 41.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Commercial Services & Supplies” companies pay a dividend yield of 2.5% and pay out 62.8% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

35.1% of Secure Energy Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.5% of shares of all “Commercial Services & Supplies” companies are held by institutional investors. 16.7% of shares of all “Commercial Services & Supplies” companies are held by company 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.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Secure Energy Services and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Secure Energy Services	N/A	N/A	36.86
Secure Energy Services Competitors	$2.44 billion	$138.82 million	24.94

Secure Energy Services’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Secure Energy Services. Secure Energy Services is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Secure Energy Services beats its peers on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

Secure Energy Services Company Profile

Secure Energy Services Inc. engages in the waste management and energy infrastructure businesses primarily in Canada and the United States. It operates through three segments, Environmental Waste Management, Energy Infrastructure, and Oilfield Services. The Environmental Waste Management segment includes a network of waste processing facilities, produced water pipelines, industrial landfills, waste transfer, and metal recycling facilities. This segment also provides processing, recovery, recycling, and disposal of waste streams; and produced and waste water disposal, hazardous and non-hazardous waste processing and transfer, and treatment of crude oil and metal recycling services. The Energy Infrastructure segment includes a network of crude oil gathering pipelines, terminals, and storage facilities. This segment also engages in the transportation, optimization, terminalling, and storage of crude oil. The Oilfield Services segment engages in drilling fluid management, which include products, equipment, and services; drilling fluids and solids equipment rentals; and project management services, including equipment contracting services supporting the energy, mining, forestry, rail, pipeline, government, and civil industries across Canada. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.