LBRT vs. PFHC, OII, XPRO, HLX, RES, ACDC, PUMP, NESR, CNX, and CRC
Should you be buying Liberty Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty Energy include ProFrac (PFHC), Oceaneering International (OII), Expro Group (XPRO), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), RPC (RES), ProFrac (ACDC), ProPetro (PUMP), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), CNX Resources (CNX), and California Resources (CRC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT) and ProFrac (NASDAQ:PFHC) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Liberty Energy received 328 more outperform votes than ProFrac when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.43% of users gave ProFrac an outperform vote while only 62.36% of users gave Liberty Energy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Liberty Energy had 5 more articles in the media than ProFrac. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Liberty Energy and 0 mentions for ProFrac. Liberty Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat ProFrac's score of 0.00 indicating that Liberty Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Liberty Energy presently has a consensus target price of $24.30, suggesting a potential upside of 3.85%. Given Liberty Energy's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Liberty Energy is more favorable than ProFrac.
Liberty Energy has a net margin of 10.43% compared to ProFrac's net margin of 0.00%. Liberty Energy's return on equity of 26.46% beat ProFrac's return on equity.
98.2% of Liberty Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.7% of ProFrac shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of Liberty Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of ProFrac shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Liberty Energy has higher revenue and earnings than ProFrac.
Summary
Liberty Energy beats ProFrac on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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