RIG vs. VAL, HP, PTEN, HPK, NFE, NXT, PDCE, CHRD, ENLC, and PBF
Should you be buying Transocean stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Transocean include Valaris (VAL), Helmerich & Payne (HP), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), HighPeak Energy (HPK), New Fortress Energy (NFE), Nextracker (NXT), PDC Energy (PDCE), Chord Energy (CHRD), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), and PBF Energy (PBF). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Transocean vs.
Valaris (NYSE:VAL) and Transocean (NYSE:RIG) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Valaris has a net margin of 7.04% compared to Valaris' net margin of -37.68%. Transocean's return on equity of 10.00% beat Valaris' return on equity.
Valaris has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Transocean has a beta of 2.99, indicating that its share price is 199% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Transocean received 908 more outperform votes than Valaris when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.88% of users gave Transocean an outperform vote while only 15.00% of users gave Valaris an outperform vote.
Valaris has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Transocean. Transocean is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Valaris, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Transocean had 2 more articles in the media than Valaris. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Transocean and 3 mentions for Valaris. Transocean's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Valaris' score of 0.56 indicating that Valaris is being referred to more favorably in the media.
89.6% of Valaris shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.7% of Transocean shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Valaris shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of Transocean shares are owned by company 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.
Valaris presently has a consensus target price of $95.50, suggesting a potential upside of 28.79%. Transocean has a consensus target price of $8.38, suggesting a potential upside of 3.01%. Given Transocean's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Valaris is more favorable than Transocean.
Summary
Valaris beats Transocean on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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