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$42.87 +0.65 (+1.54%)
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NBR vs. PTEN, HP, HPK, PDS, BORR, AMNI, RIG, VAL, BAK, and KRP

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), Transocean (RIG), Valaris (VAL), Braskem (BAK), and Kimbell Royalty Partners (KRP). 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 better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, earnings and risk.

Nabors Industries currently has a consensus target price of $73.33, indicating a potential upside of 71.06%. Patterson-UTI Energy has a consensus target price of $11.54, indicating a potential upside of 34.83%. Given Nabors Industries' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Nabors Industries is more favorable than Patterson-UTI Energy.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Nabors Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.14
Patterson-UTI Energy
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.77

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Nabors Industries$2.93B0.14-$176.08M-$22.36-1.92
Patterson-UTI Energy$5.38B0.62-$968.03M-$2.47-3.47

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nabors Industries-5.93% -32.96% -3.43%
Patterson-UTI Energy -18.00%0.81%0.51%

Nabors Industries has a beta of 2.08, indicating that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Patterson-UTI Energy has a beta of 1.99, indicating that its share price is 99% 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 3.7%. 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.

In the previous week, Patterson-UTI Energy had 5 more articles in the media than Nabors Industries. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Patterson-UTI Energy and 4 mentions for Nabors Industries. Patterson-UTI Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Nabors Industries' score of -0.19 indicating that Patterson-UTI Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Nabors Industries
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Patterson-UTI Energy
5 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

81.9% of Nabors Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.9% of Patterson-UTI Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of Nabors Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Patterson-UTI Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Patterson-UTI Energy received 16 more outperform votes than Nabors Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.25% of users gave Patterson-UTI Energy an outperform vote while only 61.35% of users gave Nabors Industries an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Nabors IndustriesOutperform Votes
797
61.35%
Underperform Votes
502
38.65%
Patterson-UTI EnergyOutperform Votes
813
62.25%
Underperform Votes
493
37.75%

Summary

Patterson-UTI Energy beats Nabors Industries on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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NBR vs. The Competition

MetricNabors IndustriesDrilling oil & gas wells IndustryEnergy SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$411.72M$903.96M$7.76B$19.62B
Dividend YieldN/A4.83%10.65%3.78%
P/E Ratio-1.923.7549.6833.46
Price / Sales0.142.2128,470.8426.71
Price / Cash1.023.1235.3717.54
Price / Book0.980.543.624.61
Net Income-$176.08M-$298.82M$4.27B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-0.02%1.25%-0.86%-0.77%
1 Month Performance16.18%-0.04%2.75%-1.26%
1 Year Performance-52.55%-32.07%149.78%4.22%

Nabors Industries Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NBR
Nabors Industries
2.5847 of 5 stars
$42.87
+1.5%
$73.33
+71.1%
-51.4%$411.72M$2.93B-1.9212,000Gap Down
PTEN
Patterson-UTI Energy
4.2124 of 5 stars
$8.22
+0.4%
$11.54
+40.4%
-28.2%$3.18B$5.38B-3.336,500Positive News
HP
Helmerich & Payne
4.7775 of 5 stars
$26.17
+3.6%
$36.11
+38.0%
-37.3%$2.60B$2.76B8.616,200Analyst Revision
HPK
HighPeak Energy
2.4582 of 5 stars
$12.66
+1.6%
$13.00
+2.7%
-19.9%$1.60B$1.07B9.9730Short Interest ↓
Positive News
PDS
Precision Drilling
3.8352 of 5 stars
$46.57
+2.7%
$112.00
+140.5%
-32.0%$630.93M$1.90B8.663,350Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
BORR
Borr Drilling
3.555 of 5 stars
$2.20
-2.0%
$9.00
+310.0%
-63.3%$537.62M$1.01B6.86520News Coverage
AMNI
American Noble Gas
N/AN/AN/AN/A$2,000.00$120,000.000.003
RIG
Transocean
4.6054 of 5 stars
$3.17
-1.1%
$5.03
+58.9%
-52.0%$2.80B$3.52B-4.345,340Gap Down
VAL
Valaris
3.4543 of 5 stars
$39.29
-0.5%
$54.33
+38.3%
-46.3%$2.79B$2.36B7.645,450Positive News
BAK
Braskem
1.945 of 5 stars
$3.86
-2.4%
$9.75
+152.9%
-64.0%$1.54B$77.41B-1.098,310
KRP
Kimbell Royalty Partners
3.5882 of 5 stars
$13.98
-0.7%
$17.80
+27.4%
-9.8%$1.50B$310.65M27.4030Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
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