HPK vs. PDS, BORR, NBR, HP, PTEN, RIG, VAL, NEXT, VTLE, and ARRY
Should you be buying HighPeak Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HighPeak Energy include Precision Drilling (PDS), Borr Drilling (BORR), Nabors Industries (NBR), Helmerich & Payne (HP), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Transocean (RIG), Valaris (VAL), NextDecade (NEXT), Vital Energy (VTLE), and Array Technologies (ARRY). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Precision Drilling (NYSE:PDS) and HighPeak Energy (NASDAQ:HPK) 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 analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Precision Drilling received 592 more outperform votes than HighPeak Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.58% of users gave Precision Drilling an outperform vote while only 52.63% of users gave HighPeak Energy an outperform vote.
48.9% of Precision Drilling shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.1% of HighPeak Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Precision Drilling shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 77.5% of HighPeak Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Precision Drilling has a beta of 2.08, meaning that its stock price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HighPeak Energy has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HighPeak Energy has a net margin of 14.64% compared to HighPeak Energy's net margin of 12.00%. Precision Drilling's return on equity of 16.58% beat HighPeak Energy's return on equity.
In the previous week, HighPeak Energy had 2 more articles in the media than Precision Drilling. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for HighPeak Energy and 3 mentions for Precision Drilling. HighPeak Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Precision Drilling's score of -0.14 indicating that Precision Drilling is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Precision Drilling pays an annual dividend of ($99.9990) per share and has a dividend yield of -139.1%. HighPeak Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Precision Drilling pays out -878.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HighPeak Energy pays out 12.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. HighPeak Energy has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. HighPeak Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Precision Drilling currently has a consensus target price of $48.00, suggesting a potential downside of 33.24%. HighPeak Energy has a consensus target price of $22.10, suggesting a potential upside of 49.43%. Given Precision Drilling's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe HighPeak Energy is more favorable than Precision Drilling.
HighPeak Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Precision Drilling. Precision Drilling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HighPeak Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Precision Drilling and HighPeak Energy tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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