PFHC vs. LBRT, OII, XPRO, HLX, RES, ACDC, PUMP, NESR, AROC, and CRK
Should you be buying ProFrac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProFrac include Liberty Energy (LBRT), Oceaneering International (OII), Expro Group (XPRO), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), RPC (RES), ProFrac (ACDC), ProPetro (PUMP), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), Archrock (AROC), and Comstock Resources (CRK). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
ProFrac (NASDAQ:PFHC) and Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Liberty Energy has a consensus target price of $24.30, suggesting a potential upside of 7.81%. Given Liberty Energy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Liberty Energy is more favorable than ProFrac.
In the previous week, Liberty Energy had 3 more articles in the media than ProFrac. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Liberty Energy and 0 mentions for ProFrac. Liberty Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat ProFrac's score of 0.00 indicating that Liberty Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Liberty Energy has higher revenue and earnings than ProFrac.
20.7% of ProFrac shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Liberty Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of ProFrac shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Liberty Energy 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.
Liberty Energy has a net margin of 10.43% compared to ProFrac's net margin of 0.00%. Liberty Energy's return on equity of 26.46% beat ProFrac's return on equity.
Liberty Energy received 328 more outperform votes than ProFrac when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.43% of users gave ProFrac an outperform vote while only 62.36% of users gave Liberty Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Liberty Energy beats ProFrac on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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