QRHC vs. EXTN, NSCO, VIVK, FPAY, AWX, ESGL, GFN, WM, RSG, and WCN
Should you be buying Quest Resource stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quest Resource include Exterran (EXTN), Nesco (NSCO), Vivakor (VIVK), FlexShopper (FPAY), Avalon (AWX), ESGL (ESGL), General Finance (GFN), Waste Management (WM), Republic Services (RSG), and Waste Connections (WCN).
Exterran (NYSE:EXTN) and Quest Resource (NASDAQ:QRHC) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
Quest Resource has a consensus price target of $13.50, indicating a potential upside of 48.68%. Given Exterran's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Quest Resource is more favorable than Exterran.
In the previous week, Quest Resource had 4 more articles in the media than Exterran. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Quest Resource and 0 mentions for Exterran. Exterran's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Quest Resource's score of 0.00 indicating that Quest Resource is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
66.3% of Exterran shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.2% of Quest Resource shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Exterran shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.6% of Quest Resource shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Exterran received 86 more outperform votes than Quest Resource when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.62% of users gave Exterran an outperform vote while only 55.56% of users gave Quest Resource an outperform vote.
Exterran has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quest Resource has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Quest Resource has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Exterran.
Quest Resource has a net margin of -2.06% compared to Quest Resource's net margin of -11.16%. Exterran's return on equity of 6.70% beat Quest Resource's return on equity.
Summary
Quest Resource beats Exterran on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding QRHC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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