ACDC vs. LBRT, OII, XPRO, HLX, RES, WTTR, PFHC, CLB, PUMP, and ARIS
Should you be buying ProFrac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProFrac include Liberty Energy (LBRT), Oceaneering International (OII), Expro Group (XPRO), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), RPC (RES), Select Water Solutions (WTTR), ProFrac (PFHC), Core Laboratories (CLB), ProPetro (PUMP), and Aris Water Solutions (ARIS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas field services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT) and ProFrac (NASDAQ:ACDC) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
98.2% of Liberty Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.8% of ProFrac shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Liberty Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of ProFrac shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Liberty Energy received 334 more outperform votes than ProFrac when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.34% of users gave Liberty Energy an outperform vote while only 35.00% of users gave ProFrac an outperform vote.
Liberty Energy has a net margin of 9.53% compared to Liberty Energy's net margin of -5.35%. ProFrac's return on equity of 22.85% beat Liberty Energy's return on equity.
Liberty Energy has higher revenue and earnings than ProFrac. ProFrac is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Liberty Energy had 17 more articles in the media than ProFrac. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Liberty Energy and 6 mentions for ProFrac. ProFrac's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Liberty Energy's score of 0.55 indicating that Liberty Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Liberty Energy has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ProFrac has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Liberty Energy currently has a consensus target price of $24.78, indicating a potential upside of 7.92%. ProFrac has a consensus target price of $10.38, indicating a potential upside of 24.25%. Given Liberty Energy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ProFrac is more favorable than Liberty Energy.
Summary
Liberty Energy beats ProFrac on 17 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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