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Precision Drilling (PDS) Competitors

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$62.30 -1.33 (-2.09%)
(As of 11/15/2024 ET)

PDS vs. SSL, BSM, VRN, LBRT, CRGY, TALO, CLMT, HPK, XPRO, and WTTR

Should you be buying Precision Drilling stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Precision Drilling include Sasol (SSL), Black Stone Minerals (BSM), Veren (VRN), Liberty Energy (LBRT), Crescent Energy (CRGY), Talos Energy (TALO), Calumet Specialty Products Partners (CLMT), HighPeak Energy (HPK), Expro Group (XPRO), and Select Water Solutions (WTTR). These companies are all part of the "petroleum and natural gas" industry.

Precision Drilling vs.

Precision Drilling (NYSE:PDS) and Sasol (NYSE:SSL) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and community ranking.

Precision Drilling has a net margin of 12.52% compared to Sasol's net margin of 0.00%. Precision Drilling's return on equity of 10.06% beat Sasol's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Precision Drilling12.52% 10.06% 5.54%
Sasol N/A N/A N/A

48.9% of Precision Drilling shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.2% of Sasol shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Precision Drilling shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Sasol shares are held by 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.

Precision Drilling received 243 more outperform votes than Sasol when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.69% of users gave Precision Drilling an outperform vote while only 54.93% of users gave Sasol an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Precision DrillingOutperform Votes
605
65.69%
Underperform Votes
316
34.31%
SasolOutperform Votes
362
54.93%
Underperform Votes
297
45.07%

Precision Drilling presently has a consensus price target of $112.00, indicating a potential upside of 79.78%. Given Precision Drilling's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Precision Drilling is more favorable than Sasol.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Precision Drilling
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Sasol
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Precision Drilling has a beta of 1.97, indicating that its stock price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sasol has a beta of 2.41, indicating that its stock price is 141% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Precision Drilling has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sasol.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Precision Drilling$1.44B0.61$214.27M$11.835.27
Sasol$14.72B0.23-$2.37BN/AN/A

In the previous week, Sasol had 3 more articles in the media than Precision Drilling. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Sasol and 1 mentions for Precision Drilling. Precision Drilling's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Sasol's score of 0.28 indicating that Precision Drilling is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Precision Drilling Positive
Sasol Neutral

Summary

Precision Drilling beats Sasol on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PDS vs. The Competition

MetricPrecision DrillingDrilling oil & gas wells IndustryEnergy SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$876.25M$1.08B$8.88B$19.83B
Dividend YieldN/A4.26%11.66%3.51%
P/E Ratio5.272.6211.0935.39
Price / Sales0.612.5178.1317.75
Price / Cash2.376.939.9421.33
Price / Book0.720.663.374.64
Net Income$214.27M-$220.57M$957.26M$982.94M
7 Day Performance-2.52%-1.19%4.68%-2.12%
1 Month Performance3.04%-4.81%0.76%-0.39%
1 Year Performance4.32%-9.40%427.54%23.34%

Precision Drilling Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PDS
Precision Drilling
4.2461 of 5 stars
$62.30
-2.1%
$112.00
+79.8%
+8.6%$876.25M$1.44B5.275,560Short Interest ↓
Positive News
SSL
Sasol
2.9457 of 5 stars
$5.55
-3.1%
N/A-57.7%$3.60B$275.11B0.0028,141Short Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
BSM
Black Stone Minerals
3.6237 of 5 stars
$15.00
flat
N/A-12.1%$3.38B$592.22M9.26110Analyst Upgrade
VRN
Veren
4.2092 of 5 stars
$5.21
-1.3%
N/AN/A$3.21B$2.59B3.72777Positive News
LBRT
Liberty Energy
4.1031 of 5 stars
$18.07
+2.2%
N/A-11.0%$2.95B$4.75B8.605,500News Coverage
Positive News
CRGY
Crescent Energy
4.3724 of 5 stars
$14.03
+3.1%
N/A+25.0%$2.49B$2.71B22.63700Short Interest ↓
TALO
Talos Energy
4.6153 of 5 stars
$11.77
-0.5%
N/A-21.0%$2.12B$1.46B392.17440Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
CLMT
Calumet Specialty Products Partners
1.3144 of 5 stars
$22.25
+0.0%
N/A+45.4%$1.91B$4.18B-8.061,580Earnings Report
Insider Selling
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
HPK
HighPeak Energy
2.0472 of 5 stars
$13.98
-1.8%
N/A-10.4%$1.79B$1.14B11.0130Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
XPRO
Expro Group
3.4081 of 5 stars
$14.13
-0.8%
N/A-15.7%$1.66B$1.68B100.948,000Positive News
WTTR
Select Water Solutions
4.0922 of 5 stars
$13.64
-2.2%
N/A+85.2%$1.62B$1.59B23.124,200Short Interest ↓

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This page (NYSE:PDS) was last updated on 11/17/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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