NGS vs. RES, HLX, TTI, OIS, FET, GIFI, DWSN, GEOS, SLB, and HAL
Should you be buying Natural Gas Services Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Natural Gas Services Group include RPC (RES), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), TETRA Technologies (TTI), Oil States International (OIS), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI), Dawson Geophysical (DWSN), Geospace Technologies (GEOS), Schlumberger (SLB), and Halliburton (HAL). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Natural Gas Services Group vs. Its Competitors
Natural Gas Services Group (NYSE:NGS) and RPC (NYSE:RES) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Natural Gas Services Group currently has a consensus target price of $32.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.22%. RPC has a consensus target price of $5.75, suggesting a potential upside of 11.76%. Given Natural Gas Services Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Natural Gas Services Group is more favorable than RPC.
RPC received 128 more outperform votes than Natural Gas Services Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.32% of users gave Natural Gas Services Group an outperform vote while only 54.25% of users gave RPC an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Natural Gas Services Group had 5 more articles in the media than RPC. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Natural Gas Services Group and 0 mentions for RPC. Natural Gas Services Group's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat RPC's score of 1.00 indicating that Natural Gas Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Natural Gas Services Group has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RPC has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
RPC has higher revenue and earnings than Natural Gas Services Group. RPC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Natural Gas Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Natural Gas Services Group has a net margin of 10.53% compared to RPC's net margin of 5.55%. RPC's return on equity of 7.08% beat Natural Gas Services Group's return on equity.
65.6% of Natural Gas Services Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.1% of RPC shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of Natural Gas Services Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 60.5% of RPC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Natural Gas Services Group beats RPC on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:NGS) was last updated on 6/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
