HPK vs. PDS, BORR, NBR, HP, RIG, PTEN, VAL, EE, PARR, and VET
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), Transocean (RIG), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Valaris (VAL), Excelerate Energy (EE), Par Pacific (PARR), and Vermilion Energy (VET). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Precision Drilling (NYSE:PDS) and HighPeak Energy (NASDAQ:HPK) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Precision Drilling had 2 more articles in the media than HighPeak Energy. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Precision Drilling and 5 mentions for HighPeak Energy. HighPeak Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Precision Drilling's score of 0.02 indicating that Precision Drilling is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Precision Drilling currently has a consensus price target of $48.00, suggesting a potential downside of 35.41%. HighPeak Energy has a consensus price target of $22.10, suggesting a potential upside of 40.67%. Given Precision Drilling's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe HighPeak Energy is more favorable than Precision Drilling.
Precision Drilling pays an annual dividend of ($99.9990) per share and has a dividend yield of -134.6%. HighPeak Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Precision Drilling pays out -878.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HighPeak Energy pays out 10.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. HighPeak Energy has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. HighPeak Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
48.9% of Precision Drilling shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.1% of HighPeak Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Precision Drilling shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 77.5% of HighPeak Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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 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 has a beta of 2.08, indicating that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HighPeak Energy has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HighPeak Energy has a net margin of 19.42% compared to HighPeak Energy's net margin of 12.00%. Precision Drilling's return on equity of 17.70% beat HighPeak Energy's return on equity.
Summary
Precision Drilling beats HighPeak Energy on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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