NR vs. DRQ, OIS, SOI, BRY, DEC, SOC, AMPS, VTS, REPX, and TTI
Should you be buying Newpark Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Newpark Resources include Dril-Quip (DRQ), Oil States International (OIS), Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure (SOI), Berry (BRY), Diversified Energy (DEC), Sable Offshore (SOC), Altus Power (AMPS), Vitesse Energy (VTS), Riley Exploration Permian (REPX), and TETRA Technologies (TTI). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Dril-Quip (NYSE:DRQ) and Newpark Resources (NYSE:NR) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
Dril-Quip has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Newpark Resources has a beta of 2.75, meaning that its stock price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dril-Quip currently has a consensus price target of $31.00, suggesting a potential upside of 60.54%. Newpark Resources has a consensus price target of $10.75, suggesting a potential upside of 47.66%. Given Newpark Resources' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Dril-Quip is more favorable than Newpark Resources.
Newpark Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Dril-Quip. Newpark Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dril-Quip, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.8% of Newpark Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Dril-Quip shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Newpark Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Dril-Quip received 10 more outperform votes than Newpark Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.27% of users gave Newpark Resources an outperform vote while only 52.24% of users gave Dril-Quip an outperform vote.
Newpark Resources has a net margin of 1.94% compared to Newpark Resources' net margin of 0.14%. Dril-Quip's return on equity of 6.53% beat Newpark Resources' return on equity.
In the previous week, Dril-Quip had 1 more articles in the media than Newpark Resources. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Dril-Quip and 2 mentions for Newpark Resources. Newpark Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Dril-Quip's score of 0.00 indicating that Dril-Quip is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Newpark Resources beats Dril-Quip on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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