XPRO vs. LBRT, OII, HLX, ACDC, RES, PFHC, WTTR, PUMP, NESR, and ARIS
Should you be buying Expro Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Expro Group include Liberty Energy (LBRT), 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 better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Expro Group currently has a consensus target price of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.01%. Liberty Energy has a consensus target price of $25.50, indicating a potential upside of 3.28%. Given Expro Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Expro Group is more favorable than Liberty Energy.
In the previous week, Liberty Energy had 6 more articles in the media than Expro Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Liberty Energy and 2 mentions for Expro Group. Liberty Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Expro Group's score of 1.29 indicating that Liberty Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.1% of Expro Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Liberty Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Expro Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Liberty Energy shares are held 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.
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 29.17% of users gave Expro Group an outperform vote.
Expro Group has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Energy has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its share price is 83% 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.
Liberty Energy has a net margin of 10.43% compared to Expro Group's net margin of -1.26%. Liberty Energy's return on equity of 26.46% beat Expro Group's return on equity.
Summary
Liberty Energy beats Expro Group on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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