LBRT vs. PFHC, OII, XPRO, HLX, RES, ACDC, PUMP, NESR, CNX, and CRC
Should you be buying Liberty Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty Energy include ProFrac (PFHC), Oceaneering International (OII), Expro Group (XPRO), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), RPC (RES), ProFrac (ACDC), ProPetro (PUMP), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), CNX Resources (CNX), and California Resources (CRC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
ProFrac (NASDAQ:PFHC) and Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Liberty Energy has a net margin of 10.43% compared to Liberty Energy's net margin of 0.00%. ProFrac's return on equity of 26.46% beat Liberty Energy's return on equity.
Liberty Energy has higher revenue and earnings than ProFrac.
Liberty Energy has a consensus price target of $24.30, indicating a potential upside of 2.62%. Given ProFrac's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Liberty Energy is more favorable than ProFrac.
20.7% of ProFrac shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Liberty Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of ProFrac 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, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Liberty Energy had 13 more articles in the media than ProFrac. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Liberty Energy and 0 mentions for ProFrac. ProFrac's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Liberty Energy's score of 0.00 indicating that Liberty Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Liberty Energy received 328 more outperform votes than ProFrac when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.43% of users gave ProFrac an outperform vote while only 62.36% of users gave Liberty Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Liberty Energy beats ProFrac on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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