HPK vs. PDS, BORR, NBR, HP, PTEN, RIG, VAL, NEXT, VTLE, and ARRY
Should you be buying HighPeak Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HighPeak Energy include Precision Drilling (PDS), Borr Drilling (BORR), Nabors Industries (NBR), Helmerich & Payne (HP), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Transocean (RIG), Valaris (VAL), NextDecade (NEXT), Vital Energy (VTLE), and Array Technologies (ARRY). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
HighPeak Energy (NASDAQ:HPK) and Precision Drilling (NYSE:PDS) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
HighPeak Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Precision Drilling. Precision Drilling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HighPeak Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, HighPeak Energy had 2 more articles in the media than Precision Drilling. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for HighPeak Energy and 3 mentions for Precision Drilling. Precision Drilling's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat HighPeak Energy's score of -0.15 indicating that Precision Drilling is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HighPeak Energy presently has a consensus target price of $22.10, indicating a potential upside of 49.43%. Precision Drilling has a consensus target price of $48.00, indicating a potential downside of 33.24%. Given HighPeak Energy's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe HighPeak Energy is more favorable than Precision Drilling.
Precision Drilling received 592 more outperform votes than HighPeak Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.58% of users gave Precision Drilling an outperform vote while only 52.63% of users gave HighPeak Energy an outperform vote.
HighPeak Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Precision Drilling pays an annual dividend of ($99.9990) per share and has a dividend yield of -139.1%. HighPeak Energy pays out 12.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Precision Drilling pays out -878.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
HighPeak Energy has a net margin of 14.64% compared to Precision Drilling's net margin of 12.00%. HighPeak Energy's return on equity of 16.58% beat Precision Drilling's return on equity.
24.1% of HighPeak Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.9% of Precision Drilling shares are held by institutional investors. 77.5% of HighPeak Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Precision Drilling shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HighPeak Energy has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Precision Drilling has a beta of 2.08, indicating that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Precision Drilling beats HighPeak Energy on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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