HLX vs. RES, OII, ACDC, PFHC, XPRO, PUMP, NESR, CLB, LBRT, and EE
Should you be buying Helix Energy Solutions Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Helix Energy Solutions Group include RPC (RES), Oceaneering International (OII), ProFrac (ACDC), ProFrac (PFHC), Expro Group (XPRO), ProPetro (PUMP), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), Core Laboratories (CLB), Liberty Energy (LBRT), and Excelerate Energy (EE). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
RPC (NYSE:RES) and Helix Energy Solutions Group (NYSE:HLX) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
41.1% of RPC shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Helix Energy Solutions Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 60.4% of RPC shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of Helix Energy Solutions Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
RPC has higher revenue and earnings than Helix Energy Solutions Group. Helix Energy Solutions Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RPC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Helix Energy Solutions Group received 41 more outperform votes than RPC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.30% of users gave Helix Energy Solutions Group an outperform vote while only 54.92% of users gave RPC an outperform vote.
RPC currently has a consensus target price of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.70%. Helix Energy Solutions Group has a consensus target price of $14.67, indicating a potential upside of 29.79%. Given RPC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Helix Energy Solutions Group is more favorable than RPC.
RPC has a net margin of 12.06% compared to RPC's net margin of -2.39%. Helix Energy Solutions Group's return on equity of 21.26% beat RPC's return on equity.
RPC has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Helix Energy Solutions Group has a beta of 2.5, meaning that its stock price is 150% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, RPC and RPC both had 12 articles in the media. RPC's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Helix Energy Solutions Group's score of 0.19 indicating that Helix Energy Solutions Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Helix Energy Solutions Group beats RPC on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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