PFIE vs. SDPI, DTI, FET, OIS, SOI, FTK, LGO, SND, MAXN, and BATL
Should you be buying Profire Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Profire Energy include Superior Drilling Products (SDPI), Drilling Tools International (DTI), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), Oil States International (OIS), Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure (SOI), Flotek Industries (FTK), Largo (LGO), Smart Sand (SND), Maxeon Solar Technologies (MAXN), and Battalion Oil (BATL). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Profire Energy (NASDAQ:PFIE) and Superior Drilling Products (NYSE:SDPI) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Profire Energy has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Superior Drilling Products has a beta of -0.03, meaning that its stock price is 103% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Superior Drilling Products has a net margin of 35.46% compared to Profire Energy's net margin of 18.51%. Superior Drilling Products' return on equity of 62.62% beat Profire Energy's return on equity.
Profire Energy received 270 more outperform votes than Superior Drilling Products when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Superior Drilling Products an outperform vote while only 60.40% of users gave Profire Energy an outperform vote.
Profire Energy currently has a consensus price target of $3.50, suggesting a potential upside of 84.21%. Given Profire Energy's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Profire Energy is more favorable than Superior Drilling Products.
In the previous week, Profire Energy had 1 more articles in the media than Superior Drilling Products. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Profire Energy and 1 mentions for Superior Drilling Products. Profire Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Superior Drilling Products' score of 1.14 indicating that Profire Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Profire Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Superior Drilling Products. Superior Drilling Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Profire Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
38.5% of Profire Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.4% of Superior Drilling Products shares are held by institutional investors. 24.0% of Profire Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 51.1% of Superior Drilling Products shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Profire Energy beats Superior Drilling Products on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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