CLB vs. LBRT, OII, XPRO, HLX, WTTR, ACDC, RES, PFHC, ARIS, and PUMP
Should you be buying Core Laboratories stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Core Laboratories include Liberty Energy (LBRT), Oceaneering International (OII), Expro Group (XPRO), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), Select Water Solutions (WTTR), ProFrac (ACDC), RPC (RES), ProFrac (PFHC), Aris Water Solutions (ARIS), and ProPetro (PUMP). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas field services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT) and Core Laboratories (NYSE:CLB) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, profitability and community ranking.
Core Laboratories received 128 more outperform votes than Liberty Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.34% of users gave Liberty Energy an outperform vote while only 54.98% of users gave Core Laboratories an outperform vote.
Liberty Energy presently has a consensus target price of $24.78, indicating a potential upside of 11.21%. Core Laboratories has a consensus target price of $17.50, indicating a potential downside of 27.17%. Given Core Laboratories' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Liberty Energy is more favorable than Core Laboratories.
In the previous week, Liberty Energy had 6 more articles in the media than Core Laboratories. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Liberty Energy and 17 mentions for Core Laboratories. Core Laboratories' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Liberty Energy's score of 0.26 indicating that Liberty Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
98.2% of Liberty Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of Core Laboratories shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of Liberty Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Core Laboratories shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Liberty Energy has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Core Laboratories has a beta of 2.41, indicating that its share price is 141% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Liberty Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Core Laboratories. Liberty Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Core Laboratories, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Liberty Energy has a net margin of 9.53% compared to Liberty Energy's net margin of 5.44%. Core Laboratories' return on equity of 22.85% beat Liberty Energy's return on equity.
Liberty Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Core Laboratories pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Liberty Energy pays out 10.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Core Laboratories pays out 4.5% 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.
Summary
Liberty Energy beats Core Laboratories on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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