LBRT vs. XPRO, OII, HLX, ACDC, RES, PFHC, WTTR, PUMP, NESR, and ARIS
Should you be buying Liberty Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty Energy 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 Aris Water Solutions (ARIS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas field services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Expro Group (NYSE:XPRO) and Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Expro Group has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Energy has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Liberty Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Expro Group. Expro Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
92.1% of Expro Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Liberty Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Expro Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Liberty Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Liberty Energy had 1 more articles in the media than Expro Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Liberty Energy and 6 mentions for Expro Group. Expro Group's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Liberty Energy's score of 0.38 indicating that Liberty Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Liberty Energy received 332 more outperform votes than Expro Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.43% of users gave Liberty Energy an outperform vote while only 28.00% of users gave Expro Group an outperform vote.
Liberty Energy has a net margin of 10.43% compared to Liberty Energy's net margin of -1.26%. Expro Group's return on equity of 26.46% beat Liberty Energy's return on equity.
Expro Group currently has a consensus price target of $27.25, indicating a potential upside of 34.04%. Liberty Energy has a consensus price target of $25.50, indicating a potential upside of 12.19%. Given Liberty Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Expro Group is more favorable than Liberty Energy.
Summary
Liberty Energy beats Expro Group on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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