Financial Contrast: Viridien (CGGYY) versus Its Peers

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Viridien and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Viridien	$1.08 billion	$12.90 million	5.30
Viridien Competitors	$3.15 billion	$26.09 million	11.33

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

Volatility & Risk

Viridien has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viridien’s rivals have a beta of 0.76, meaning that their average stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Viridien and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Viridien	7.49%	8.17%	3.01%
Viridien Competitors	-10.92%	13.37%	1.44%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

49.0% of shares of all “Energy Equipment & Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 12.3% of shares of all “Energy Equipment & Services” companies are owned by 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.

Summary

Viridien rivals beat Viridien on 6 of the 9 factors compared.

About Viridien

CGG engages in the provision of data, products, services, and solutions in Earth science, data science, sensing, and monitoring in North America, Latin America, the Central and South Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through two segments: Data, Digital & Energy Transition (DDE); and Sensing & Monitoring (SMO). The DDE segments engages in the developing and licensing Earth data seismic surveys; processing and imaging seismic data; sale of seismic data processing software under the Geovation brand; provision of geoscience and petroleum engineering consulting services; and collecting, developing, and licensing geological data. The SMO segment is involved in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of seismic equipment for the land and marine seismic data acquisition, including seismic recording equipment, software, and seismic sources for land vibrators or marine sources, and sensing and monitoring equipment and solutions under the Sercel, Metrolog, GRC, DeRegt, and Geocomp brand names. This segment also provides customer support services, such as training. It provides its solutions for natural resources, environmental, infrastructure, energy transition, and digital applications. The company was formerly known as Compagnie Générale de Géophysique Veritas SA and changed its name to CGG in 2013. CGG was incorporated in 1931 and is headquartered in Massy, France.