VAL vs. RIG, PTEN, HP, HPK, MGY, BEPC, NFE, CWEN, CPG, and SUN
Should you be buying Valaris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Valaris include Transocean (RIG), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Helmerich & Payne (HP), HighPeak Energy (HPK), Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), New Fortress Energy (NFE), Clearway Energy (CWEN), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), and Sunoco (SUN). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Valaris (NYSE:VAL) and Transocean (NYSE:RIG) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
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.
Valaris presently has a consensus target price of $99.20, indicating a potential upside of 29.50%. Transocean has a consensus target price of $7.70, indicating a potential upside of 27.69%. Given Valaris' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Valaris is more favorable than Transocean.
Valaris has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Transocean has a beta of 2.83, suggesting that its share price is 183% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valaris has a net margin of 44.93% compared to Transocean's net margin of -13.27%. Valaris' return on equity of 3.81% beat Transocean's return on equity.
96.7% of Valaris shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.7% of Transocean shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Valaris shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of Transocean shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Transocean had 6 more articles in the media than Valaris. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Transocean and 4 mentions for Valaris. Transocean's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Valaris' score of 0.89 indicating that Transocean is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Transocean received 903 more outperform votes than Valaris when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.72% of users gave Transocean an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave Valaris an outperform vote.
Summary
Valaris beats Transocean on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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