HPK vs. PDS, BORR, NBR, HP, PTEN, RIG, VAL, DK, VET, and PARR
Should you be buying HighPeak Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HighPeak Energy include Precision Drilling (PDS), Borr Drilling (BORR), Nabors Industries (NBR), Helmerich & Payne (HP), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Transocean (RIG), Valaris (VAL), Delek US (DK), Vermilion Energy (VET), and Par Pacific (PARR). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Precision Drilling (NYSE:PDS) and HighPeak Energy (NASDAQ:HPK) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Precision Drilling has a beta of 2.08, meaning that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HighPeak Energy has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Precision Drilling currently has a consensus target price of $48.00, suggesting a potential downside of 32.43%. HighPeak Energy has a consensus target price of $22.10, suggesting a potential upside of 58.08%. Given Precision Drilling's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe HighPeak Energy is more favorable than Precision Drilling.
In the previous week, HighPeak Energy had 17 more articles in the media than Precision Drilling. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for HighPeak Energy and 2 mentions for Precision Drilling. Precision Drilling's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat HighPeak Energy's score of 0.44 indicating that HighPeak Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HighPeak Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Precision Drilling. Precision Drilling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HighPeak Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Precision Drilling received 592 more outperform votes than HighPeak Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.58% of users gave Precision Drilling an outperform vote while only 52.63% of users gave HighPeak Energy an outperform vote.
HighPeak Energy has a net margin of 14.64% compared to HighPeak Energy's net margin of 12.00%. Precision Drilling's return on equity of 16.58% beat HighPeak Energy's return on equity.
48.9% of Precision Drilling shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.1% of HighPeak Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Precision Drilling shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 77.5% of HighPeak Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
HighPeak Energy beats Precision Drilling on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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