NBR vs. BORR, PDS, HPK, NGL, SBOW, NPWR, OPAL, CLB, EFXT, and VTS
Should you be buying Nabors Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nabors Industries include Borr Drilling (BORR), Precision Drilling (PDS), HighPeak Energy (HPK), NGL Energy Partners (NGL), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), NET Power (NPWR), OPAL Fuels (OPAL), Core Laboratories (CLB), Enerflex (EFXT), and Vitesse Energy (VTS). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Borr Drilling (NYSE:BORR) and Nabors Industries (NYSE:NBR) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Borr Drilling currently has a consensus target price of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 65.14%. Nabors Industries has a consensus target price of $129.60, suggesting a potential upside of 69.99%. Given Borr Drilling's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nabors Industries is more favorable than Borr Drilling.
Borr Drilling has a beta of 3.02, meaning that its stock price is 202% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nabors Industries has a beta of 2.33, meaning that its stock price is 133% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Nabors Industries had 15 more articles in the media than Borr Drilling. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Nabors Industries and 0 mentions for Borr Drilling. Nabors Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Borr Drilling's score of -0.18 indicating that Borr Drilling is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nabors Industries received 789 more outperform votes than Borr Drilling when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Borr Drilling an outperform vote while only 61.77% of users gave Nabors Industries an outperform vote.
83.1% of Borr Drilling shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Nabors Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.9% of Borr Drilling shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Nabors Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Borr Drilling has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Nabors Industries. Nabors Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Borr Drilling, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Borr Drilling has a net margin of 2.86% compared to Borr Drilling's net margin of -0.66%. Nabors Industries' return on equity of 2.38% beat Borr Drilling's return on equity.
Summary
Borr Drilling beats Nabors Industries on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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