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Baker Hughes (BKR) Competitors

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BKR vs. FANG, PTEN, FTI, HAL, MTDR, NOV, OII, PR, SLB, and WHD

Should you be buying Baker Hughes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Baker Hughes include Diamondback Energy (FANG), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), TechnipFMC (FTI), Halliburton (HAL), Matador Resources (MTDR), NOV (NOV), Oceaneering International (OII), Permian Resources (PR), Schlumberger (SLB), and Cactus (WHD). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.

Baker Hughes vs. Its Competitors

Diamondback Energy (NASDAQ:FANG) and Baker Hughes (NASDAQ:BKR) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Diamondback Energy has a net margin of 30.84% compared to Baker Hughes' net margin of 10.51%. Baker Hughes' return on equity of 14.70% beat Diamondback Energy's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Diamondback Energy30.84% 11.22% 6.53%
Baker Hughes 10.51%14.70%6.47%

Diamondback Energy presently has a consensus price target of $193.35, indicating a potential upside of 37.70%. Baker Hughes has a consensus price target of $48.50, indicating a potential upside of 22.59%. Given Diamondback Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Diamondback Energy is more favorable than Baker Hughes.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Diamondback Energy
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
19 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.05
Baker Hughes
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
18 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.90

Diamondback Energy pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Baker Hughes pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Diamondback Energy pays out 24.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Baker Hughes pays out 31.4% 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. Diamondback Energy has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Baker Hughes has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Diamondback Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Diamondback Energy has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Baker Hughes has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Baker Hughes had 5 more articles in the media than Diamondback Energy. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Baker Hughes and 22 mentions for Diamondback Energy. Diamondback Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Baker Hughes' score of 1.15 indicating that Diamondback Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Diamondback Energy
16 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Baker Hughes
20 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Diamondback Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Baker Hughes. Diamondback Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Baker Hughes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Diamondback Energy$12.84B3.20$3.34B$16.358.59
Baker Hughes$27.83B1.41$2.98B$2.9313.50

90.0% of Diamondback Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of Baker Hughes shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Diamondback Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Baker Hughes shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Diamondback Energy beats Baker Hughes on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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BKR vs. The Competition

MetricBaker HughesOIL IndustryEnergy SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$39.20B$5.21B$7.68B$9.30B
Dividend Yield2.26%2.94%10.94%4.02%
P/E Ratio13.5010.1664.4019.64
Price / Sales1.414.6827,335.9878.64
Price / Cash11.547.4335.2627.53
Price / Book2.301.703.885.58
Net Income$2.98B$397.37M$4.24B$256.82M
7 Day Performance-1.36%-4.38%0.27%1.49%
1 Month Performance1.34%-4.10%0.83%11.27%
1 Year Performance10.79%-3.54%10.14%15.99%

Baker Hughes Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BKR
Baker Hughes
4.5092 of 5 stars
$39.56
-0.8%
$48.50
+22.6%
+15.6%$39.20B$27.83B13.5057,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
FANG
Diamondback Energy
4.918 of 5 stars
$137.92
-2.1%
$193.13
+40.0%
-30.5%$40.30B$11.07B8.441,983Positive News
Analyst Revision
PTEN
Patterson-UTI Energy
4.6686 of 5 stars
$6.17
-2.2%
$9.50
+54.0%
-38.5%$2.38B$5.38B-2.379,200Analyst Forecast
FTI
TechnipFMC
4.1839 of 5 stars
$34.79
-0.3%
$36.85
+5.9%
+28.6%$14.59B$9.08B18.3125,304Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
HAL
Halliburton
4.8828 of 5 stars
$20.94
-2.7%
$33.53
+60.1%
-35.0%$18.00B$22.94B8.7648,000Upcoming Earnings
MTDR
Matador Resources
4.7122 of 5 stars
$49.10
-2.7%
$69.06
+40.7%
-16.3%$6.15B$3.50B6.59290Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
NOV
NOV
4.7835 of 5 stars
$12.76
-2.4%
$17.38
+36.2%
-28.4%$4.79B$8.87B8.5134,010
OII
Oceaneering International
3.8096 of 5 stars
$20.87
-2.0%
$28.00
+34.2%
-15.9%$2.10B$2.66B11.7210,400News Coverage
Analyst Downgrade
PR
Permian Resources
4.8023 of 5 stars
$13.78
-2.0%
$18.33
+33.0%
-14.6%$11.07B$5.13B8.51220Positive News
SLB
Schlumberger
4.9173 of 5 stars
$34.98
-1.9%
$50.85
+45.4%
-21.8%$47.58B$36.29B11.86110,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
WHD
Cactus
3.9184 of 5 stars
$43.92
-3.0%
$52.33
+19.2%
-19.9%$3.51B$1.13B15.631,600

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This page (NASDAQ:BKR) was last updated on 7/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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