RES vs. HLX, OII, ACDC, PUMP, NESR, CLB, XPRO, PFHC, LBRT, and WKC
Should you be buying RPC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RPC include Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), Oceaneering International (OII), ProFrac (ACDC), ProPetro (PUMP), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), Core Laboratories (CLB), Expro Group (XPRO), ProFrac (PFHC), Liberty Energy (LBRT), and World Kinect (WKC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Helix Energy Solutions Group (NYSE:HLX) and RPC (NYSE:RES) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Helix Energy Solutions Group currently has a consensus target price of $14.67, indicating a potential upside of 25.57%. RPC has a consensus target price of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 7.45%. Given RPC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Helix Energy Solutions Group is more favorable than RPC.
In the previous week, Helix Energy Solutions Group had 2 more articles in the media than RPC. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Helix Energy Solutions Group and 1 mentions for RPC. Helix Energy Solutions Group's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat RPC's score of 1.29 indicating that RPC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Helix Energy Solutions Group received 41 more outperform votes than RPC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.30% of users gave Helix Energy Solutions Group an outperform vote while only 54.84% of users gave RPC an outperform vote.
RPC has a net margin of 9.95% compared to RPC's net margin of -2.39%. Helix Energy Solutions Group's return on equity of 15.02% beat RPC's return on equity.
91.3% of Helix Energy Solutions Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.1% of RPC shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of Helix Energy Solutions Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 60.4% of RPC shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
RPC has higher revenue and earnings than Helix Energy Solutions Group. Helix Energy Solutions Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RPC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Helix Energy Solutions Group has a beta of 2.5, suggesting that its stock price is 150% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RPC has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Helix Energy Solutions Group and RPC tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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