DRQ vs. NR, OIS, FET, SOI, BRY, DEC, EGY, VTS, METC, and SOC
Should you be buying Dril-Quip stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dril-Quip include Newpark Resources (NR), Oil States International (OIS), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure (SOI), Berry (BRY), Diversified Energy (DEC), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Vitesse Energy (VTS), Ramaco Resources (METC), and Sable Offshore (SOC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Dril-Quip (NYSE:DRQ) and Newpark Resources (NYSE:NR) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Dril-Quip has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Newpark Resources has a beta of 2.75, suggesting that its share price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Newpark Resources has a net margin of 1.94% compared to Dril-Quip's net margin of 0.14%. Newpark Resources' return on equity of 6.53% beat Dril-Quip's return on equity.
Dril-Quip currently has a consensus target price of $31.00, indicating a potential upside of 71.27%. Newpark Resources has a consensus target price of $10.75, indicating a potential upside of 55.12%. Given Dril-Quip's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Dril-Quip is more favorable than Newpark Resources.
Newpark Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Dril-Quip. Newpark Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dril-Quip, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.8% of Newpark Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Dril-Quip shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Newpark Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Newpark Resources had 1 more articles in the media than Dril-Quip. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Newpark Resources and 2 mentions for Dril-Quip. Newpark Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Dril-Quip's score of 0.20 indicating that Newpark Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dril-Quip received 10 more outperform votes than Newpark Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.27% of users gave Newpark Resources an outperform vote while only 52.24% of users gave Dril-Quip an outperform vote.
Summary
Newpark Resources beats Dril-Quip on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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