FET vs. NR, DRQ, TTI, OIS, NGS, GEOS, GIFI, DWSN, SLB, and HAL
Should you be buying Forum Energy Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Forum Energy Technologies include Newpark Resources (NR), Dril-Quip (DRQ), TETRA Technologies (TTI), Oil States International (OIS), Natural Gas Services Group (NGS), Geospace Technologies (GEOS), Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI), Dawson Geophysical (DWSN), Schlumberger (SLB), and Halliburton (HAL). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Forum Energy Technologies (NYSE:FET) and Newpark Resources (NYSE:NR) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Newpark Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Forum Energy Technologies. Forum Energy Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Newpark Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Newpark Resources has a net margin of 2.25% compared to Forum Energy Technologies' net margin of -3.42%. Newpark Resources' return on equity of 6.67% beat Forum Energy Technologies' return on equity.
65.6% of Forum Energy Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.8% of Newpark Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of Forum Energy Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Newpark Resources 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.
Newpark Resources has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 34.97%. Given Newpark Resources' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Newpark Resources is more favorable than Forum Energy Technologies.
Forum Energy Technologies has a beta of 2.46, suggesting that its stock price is 146% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Newpark Resources has a beta of 2.86, suggesting that its stock price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Newpark Resources had 1 more articles in the media than Forum Energy Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Newpark Resources and 0 mentions for Forum Energy Technologies. Newpark Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Forum Energy Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that Newpark Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Forum Energy Technologies received 113 more outperform votes than Newpark Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.49% of users gave Newpark Resources an outperform vote while only 53.39% of users gave Forum Energy Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
Newpark Resources beats Forum Energy Technologies on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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