NBR vs. PTEN, HP, BORR, PDS, HPK, GLP, PUMP, DMLP, CLB, and GEL
Should you be buying Nabors Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nabors Industries include Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Helmerich & Payne (HP), Borr Drilling (BORR), Precision Drilling (PDS), HighPeak Energy (HPK), Global Partners (GLP), ProPetro (PUMP), Dorchester Minerals (DMLP), Core Laboratories (CLB), and Genesis Energy (GEL). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Nabors Industries (NYSE:NBR) and Patterson-UTI Energy (NASDAQ:PTEN) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Patterson-UTI Energy had 1 more articles in the media than Nabors Industries. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Patterson-UTI Energy and 12 mentions for Nabors Industries. Patterson-UTI Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Nabors Industries' score of -0.12 indicating that Patterson-UTI Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nabors Industries has a beta of 2.74, meaning that its share price is 174% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Patterson-UTI Energy has a beta of 2.35, meaning that its share price is 135% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Patterson-UTI Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Nabors Industries. Nabors Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Patterson-UTI Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.4% of Nabors Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.9% of Patterson-UTI Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 7.1% of Nabors Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Patterson-UTI Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Nabors Industries received 10 more outperform votes than Patterson-UTI Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.23% of users gave Patterson-UTI Energy an outperform vote while only 62.09% of users gave Nabors Industries an outperform vote.
Nabors Industries presently has a consensus target price of $145.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.34%. Patterson-UTI Energy has a consensus target price of $18.11, suggesting a potential upside of 39.53%. Given Patterson-UTI Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Patterson-UTI Energy is more favorable than Nabors Industries.
Patterson-UTI Energy has a net margin of 11.28% compared to Nabors Industries' net margin of -0.96%. Patterson-UTI Energy's return on equity of 21.22% beat Nabors Industries' return on equity.
Summary
Patterson-UTI Energy beats Nabors Industries on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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