NBR vs. APA, PTEN, HAL, HP, LBRT, MUR, OII, PDS, PUMP, and RES
Should you be buying Nabors Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nabors Industries include APA (APA), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Halliburton (HAL), Helmerich & Payne (HP), Liberty Energy (LBRT), Murphy Oil (MUR), Oceaneering International (OII), Precision Drilling (PDS), ProPetro (PUMP), and RPC (RES). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Nabors Industries vs. Its Competitors
Nabors Industries (NYSE:NBR) and APA (NASDAQ:APA) are both energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk and media sentiment.
Nabors Industries has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, APA has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Nabors Industries presently has a consensus target price of $44.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.34%. APA has a consensus target price of $23.47, suggesting a potential upside of 5.24%. Given Nabors Industries' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Nabors Industries is more favorable than APA.
In the previous week, APA had 5 more articles in the media than Nabors Industries. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for APA and 17 mentions for Nabors Industries. APA's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Nabors Industries' score of -0.20 indicating that APA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
APA has higher revenue and earnings than Nabors Industries. Nabors Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than APA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nabors Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. APA pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Nabors Industries pays out -0.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. APA pays out 33.4% 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.
81.9% of Nabors Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.0% of APA shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Nabors Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of APA shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
APA has a net margin of 10.53% compared to Nabors Industries' net margin of -3.51%. APA's return on equity of 20.98% beat Nabors Industries' return on equity.
Summary
APA beats Nabors Industries on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:NBR) was last updated on 10/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
