NBR vs. PTEN, HP, HPK, PDS, BORR, AMNI, VAL, RIG, IREN, and INVX
Should you be buying Nabors Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nabors Industries include Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Helmerich & Payne (HP), HighPeak Energy (HPK), Precision Drilling (PDS), Borr Drilling (BORR), American Noble Gas (AMNI), Valaris (VAL), Transocean (RIG), Iris Energy (IREN), and Innovex International (INVX). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Nabors Industries vs.
Nabors Industries (NYSE:NBR) and Patterson-UTI Energy (NASDAQ:PTEN) are both energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
In the previous week, Patterson-UTI Energy had 9 more articles in the media than Nabors Industries. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Patterson-UTI Energy and 6 mentions for Nabors Industries. Patterson-UTI Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Nabors Industries' score of 0.51 indicating that Patterson-UTI Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nabors Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Patterson-UTI Energy. Patterson-UTI Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nabors Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
81.9% of Nabors Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.9% of Patterson-UTI Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 7.3% of Nabors Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Patterson-UTI 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.
Patterson-UTI Energy received 18 more outperform votes than Nabors Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.26% of users gave Patterson-UTI Energy an outperform vote while only 61.31% of users gave Nabors Industries an outperform vote.
Nabors Industries currently has a consensus price target of $71.17, suggesting a potential upside of 157.31%. Patterson-UTI Energy has a consensus price target of $11.21, suggesting a potential upside of 90.62%. Given Nabors Industries' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Nabors Industries is more favorable than Patterson-UTI Energy.
Nabors Industries has a net margin of -5.93% compared to Patterson-UTI Energy's net margin of -18.00%. Patterson-UTI Energy's return on equity of 0.81% beat Nabors Industries' return on equity.
Nabors Industries has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Patterson-UTI Energy has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Nabors Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Patterson-UTI Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Nabors Industries pays out -0.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Patterson-UTI Energy pays out -13.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Patterson-UTI Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Patterson-UTI Energy beats Nabors Industries on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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