NESR vs. PUMP, PFHC, CLB, ACDC, RES, NGS, HLX, XPRO, OII, and LBRT
Should you be buying National Energy Services Reunited stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Energy Services Reunited include ProPetro (PUMP), ProFrac (PFHC), Core Laboratories (CLB), ProFrac (ACDC), RPC (RES), Natural Gas Services Group (NGS), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), Expro Group (XPRO), Oceaneering International (OII), and Liberty Energy (LBRT). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas field services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
ProPetro (NYSE:PUMP) and National Energy Services Reunited (NASDAQ:NESR) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
ProPetro has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Energy Services Reunited has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ProPetro has higher revenue and earnings than National Energy Services Reunited.
ProPetro currently has a consensus target price of $13.33, indicating a potential upside of 40.80%. Given National Energy Services Reunited's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe ProPetro is more favorable than National Energy Services Reunited.
In the previous week, ProPetro had 25 more articles in the media than National Energy Services Reunited. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for ProPetro and 1 mentions for National Energy Services Reunited. National Energy Services Reunited's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat ProPetro's score of 0.31 indicating that ProPetro is being referred to more favorably in the media.
National Energy Services Reunited received 8 more outperform votes than ProPetro when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.84% of users gave ProPetro an outperform vote while only 58.15% of users gave National Energy Services Reunited an outperform vote.
84.7% of ProPetro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.6% of National Energy Services Reunited shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of ProPetro shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ProPetro has a net margin of 4.76% compared to ProPetro's net margin of 0.00%. National Energy Services Reunited's return on equity of 7.62% beat ProPetro's return on equity.
Summary
ProPetro beats National Energy Services Reunited on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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