AMPY vs. PDS, BORR, NOA, GPRK, GFR, PNRG, TBN, RNGR, GTE, and EPM
Should you be buying Amplify Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amplify Energy include Precision Drilling (PDS), Borr Drilling (BORR), North American Construction Group (NOA), GeoPark (GPRK), Greenfire Resources (GFR), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), Tamboran Resources (TBN), Ranger Energy Services (RNGR), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), and Evolution Petroleum (EPM). These companies are all part of the "petroleum and natural gas" industry.
Amplify Energy vs.
Precision Drilling (NYSE:PDS) and Amplify Energy (NYSE:AMPY) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and profitability.
In the previous week, Precision Drilling had 4 more articles in the media than Amplify Energy. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Precision Drilling and 2 mentions for Amplify Energy. Precision Drilling's average media sentiment score of 0.03 beat Amplify Energy's score of -0.45 indicating that Precision Drilling is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Precision Drilling has a beta of 2.05, indicating that its stock price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amplify Energy has a beta of 1.88, indicating that its stock price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500.
48.9% of Precision Drilling shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.8% of Amplify Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Precision Drilling shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Amplify Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Precision Drilling received 596 more outperform votes than Amplify Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.75% of users gave Amplify Energy an outperform vote while only 65.48% of users gave Precision Drilling an outperform vote.
Amplify Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Precision Drilling. Precision Drilling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amplify Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Amplify Energy has a net margin of 20.99% compared to Precision Drilling's net margin of 5.87%. Amplify Energy's return on equity of 16.22% beat Precision Drilling's return on equity.
Precision Drilling presently has a consensus price target of $112.00, suggesting a potential upside of 140.01%. Amplify Energy has a consensus price target of $9.63, suggesting a potential upside of 141.23%. Given Amplify Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Amplify Energy is more favorable than Precision Drilling.
Precision Drilling pays an annual dividend of ($99.9990) per share and has a dividend yield of -214.3%. Amplify Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Precision Drilling pays out -1,858.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Amplify Energy pays out 142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Amplify Energy beats Precision Drilling on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:AMPY) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
