PUMP vs. LBRT, XPRO, OII, HLX, ACDC, RES, PFHC, WTTR, NESR, and ARIS
Should you be buying ProPetro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProPetro include Liberty Energy (LBRT), Expro Group (XPRO), Oceaneering International (OII), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), ProFrac (ACDC), RPC (RES), ProFrac (PFHC), Select Water Solutions (WTTR), 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.
ProPetro (NYSE:PUMP) and Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.
84.7% of ProPetro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Liberty Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of ProPetro shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Liberty Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ProPetro currently has a consensus price target of $13.33, indicating a potential upside of 47.17%. Liberty Energy has a consensus price target of $25.50, indicating a potential upside of 12.19%. Given ProPetro's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe ProPetro is more favorable than Liberty Energy.
Liberty Energy received 190 more outperform votes than ProPetro when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.43% of users gave Liberty Energy an outperform vote while only 59.84% of users gave ProPetro an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Liberty Energy had 2 more articles in the media than ProPetro. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Liberty Energy and 6 mentions for ProPetro. Liberty Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat ProPetro's score of 0.43 indicating that Liberty Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Liberty Energy has a net margin of 10.43% compared to ProPetro's net margin of 4.76%. Liberty Energy's return on equity of 26.46% beat ProPetro's return on equity.
ProPetro has a beta of 2.1, suggesting that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Energy has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Liberty Energy has higher revenue and earnings than ProPetro. Liberty Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ProPetro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Liberty Energy beats ProPetro on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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