ARIS vs. XPRO, OII, HLX, ACDC, RES, PFHC, WTTR, PUMP, NESR, and CLB
Should you be buying Aris Water Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aris Water Solutions include Expro Group (XPRO), Oceaneering International (OII), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), ProFrac (ACDC), RPC (RES), ProFrac (PFHC), Select Water Solutions (WTTR), ProPetro (PUMP), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), and Core Laboratories (CLB). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas field services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Aris Water Solutions (NYSE:ARIS) and Expro Group (NYSE:XPRO) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
Aris Water Solutions has a net margin of 5.73% compared to Expro Group's net margin of -1.26%. Aris Water Solutions' return on equity of 4.62% beat Expro Group's return on equity.
39.7% of Aris Water Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of Expro Group shares are held by institutional investors. 22.5% of Aris Water Solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Expro Group shares are held by 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.
Aris Water Solutions has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Expro Group has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Aris Water Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $14.93, indicating a potential downside of 0.08%. Expro Group has a consensus target price of $27.25, indicating a potential upside of 29.58%. Given Expro Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Expro Group is more favorable than Aris Water Solutions.
Aris Water Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Expro Group. Expro Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aris Water Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Aris Water Solutions had 3 more articles in the media than Expro Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Aris Water Solutions and 3 mentions for Expro Group. Aris Water Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Expro Group's score of 0.38 indicating that Aris Water Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Aris Water Solutions received 15 more outperform votes than Expro Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.11% of users gave Aris Water Solutions an outperform vote while only 28.00% of users gave Expro Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Aris Water Solutions beats Expro Group on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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