CLB vs. XPRO, OII, HLX, ACDC, RES, PFHC, WTTR, PUMP, NESR, and ARIS
Should you be buying Core Laboratories stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Core Laboratories include Expro Group (XPRO), Oceaneering International (OII), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), ProFrac (ACDC), RPC (RES), ProFrac (PFHC), Select Water Solutions (WTTR), ProPetro (PUMP), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), and Aris Water Solutions (ARIS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas field services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Expro Group (NYSE:XPRO) and Core Laboratories (NYSE:CLB) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and earnings.
Expro Group currently has a consensus price target of $27.25, suggesting a potential upside of 34.04%. Core Laboratories has a consensus price target of $18.75, suggesting a potential upside of 2.80%. Given Core Laboratories' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Expro Group is more favorable than Core Laboratories.
Core Laboratories has a net margin of 8.18% compared to Core Laboratories' net margin of -1.26%. Expro Group's return on equity of 15.71% beat Core Laboratories' return on equity.
Core Laboratories has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Expro Group. Expro Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Core Laboratories, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Expro Group has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Core Laboratories has a beta of 2.39, suggesting that its share price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Expro Group had 4 more articles in the media than Core Laboratories. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Expro Group and 2 mentions for Core Laboratories. Expro Group's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Core Laboratories' score of 0.38 indicating that Core Laboratories is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.1% of Expro Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of Core Laboratories shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Expro Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Core Laboratories shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Core Laboratories received 462 more outperform votes than Expro Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.18% of users gave Core Laboratories an outperform vote while only 28.00% of users gave Expro Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Core Laboratories beats Expro Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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