PFIE vs. SDPI, DTI, FET, FTCI, NINE, CETY, NRT, AE, SLNG, and VIA
Should you be buying Profire Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Profire Energy include Superior Drilling Products (SDPI), Drilling Tools International (DTI), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), FTC Solar (FTCI), Nine Energy Service (NINE), Clean Energy Technologies (CETY), North European Oil Royalty Trust (NRT), Adams Resources & Energy (AE), Stabilis Solutions (SLNG), and Via Renewables (VIA). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Profire Energy (NASDAQ:PFIE) and Superior Drilling Products (NYSE:SDPI) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and risk.
Profire Energy received 269 more outperform votes than Superior Drilling Products when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Superior Drilling Products an outperform vote while only 60.40% of users gave Profire Energy an outperform vote.
38.5% of Profire Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.4% of Superior Drilling Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.0% of Profire Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.1% of Superior Drilling Products shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Profire Energy has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Superior Drilling Products has a beta of -0.03, suggesting that its share price is 103% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Superior Drilling Products has a net margin of 20.88% compared to Profire Energy's net margin of 16.79%. Superior Drilling Products' return on equity of 31.10% beat Profire Energy's return on equity.
In the previous week, Superior Drilling Products had 2 more articles in the media than Profire Energy. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Superior Drilling Products and 2 mentions for Profire Energy. Profire Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Superior Drilling Products' score of 0.59 indicating that Profire Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Profire Energy currently has a consensus target price of $3.50, indicating a potential upside of 153.62%. Given Profire Energy's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Profire Energy is more favorable than Superior Drilling Products.
Profire Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Superior Drilling Products. Profire Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Superior Drilling Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Superior Drilling Products beats Profire Energy on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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