Analyzing Team (TISI) and Its Competitors

Team (NYSE:TISI) is one of 354 publicly-traded companies in the “Commercial Services & Supplies” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Team to related companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Team	$896.48 million	-$49.21 million	-2.27
Team Competitors	$2.45 billion	$140.58 million	11.88

Team’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Team. Team is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

46.6% of Team shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.5% of shares of all “Commercial Services & Supplies” companies are held by institutional investors. 8.8% of Team shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of shares of all “Commercial Services & Supplies” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Team and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Team	-3.73%	N/A	-4.68%
Team Competitors	-67.44%	-119.23%	-1.34%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Team and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Team	1	0	0	0	1.00
Team Competitors	1905	6248	9030	664	2.47

As a group, “Commercial Services & Supplies” companies have a potential upside of 10.42%. Given Team’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Team has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Risk and Volatility

Team has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Team’s peers have a beta of 2.50, indicating that their average stock price is 150% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Team peers beat Team on 9 of the 12 factors compared.

Team Company Profile

Team, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides a suite of conventional, specialized, and proprietary mechanical, heat-treating, and inspection services in the United States, Canada, Europe, and internationally. It operates through Inspection and Heat Treating (IHT) and Mechanical Services (MS) segments. The IHT segment offers non-destructive evaluation and testing, radiographic testing, ultrasonic testing, magnetic particle inspection, liquid penetrant inspection, positive material identification, electromagnetic testing, alternating current field measurement, and eddy current testing services. This segment also provides long-range guided ultrasonic, phased array ultrasonic testing, terminals and storage inspection and management program, rope access, mechanical and pipeline integrity, and heat treating services. The MS segment offers engineered composite repair, emissions control/compliance, hot tapping, valve insertion, field machining, bolted joint integrity, vapor barrier plug and weld testing, and valve management services, as well as leak repair services. Team, Inc. was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas.