ACDC vs. PUMP, NESR, RES, CLB, HLX, XPRO, OII, PFHC, LBRT, and NRP
Should you be buying ProFrac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProFrac include ProPetro (PUMP), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), RPC (RES), Core Laboratories (CLB), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), Expro Group (XPRO), Oceaneering International (OII), ProFrac (PFHC), Liberty Energy (LBRT), and Natural Resource Partners (NRP). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
ProFrac (NASDAQ:ACDC) and ProPetro (NYSE:PUMP) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
ProFrac has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ProPetro has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ProFrac currently has a consensus price target of $11.88, indicating a potential upside of 44.82%. ProPetro has a consensus price target of $13.33, indicating a potential upside of 39.32%. Given ProFrac's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe ProFrac is more favorable than ProPetro.
ProPetro has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ProFrac. ProFrac is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ProPetro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
12.8% of ProFrac shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of ProPetro shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of ProFrac shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of ProPetro shares are owned 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.
ProPetro received 143 more outperform votes than ProFrac when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.84% of users gave ProPetro an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave ProFrac an outperform vote.
In the previous week, ProFrac had 6 more articles in the media than ProPetro. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for ProFrac and 6 mentions for ProPetro. ProPetro's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat ProFrac's score of 0.41 indicating that ProPetro is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ProPetro has a net margin of 4.76% compared to ProFrac's net margin of -5.35%. ProPetro's return on equity of 7.62% beat ProFrac's return on equity.
Summary
ProPetro beats ProFrac on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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