PDS vs. LBRT, SOC, ARIS, MNR, BKV, TALO, HPK, KRP, DMLP, and VET
Should you be buying Precision Drilling stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Precision Drilling include Liberty Energy (LBRT), Sable Offshore (SOC), Aris Water Solutions (ARIS), Mach Natural Resources (MNR), BKV (BKV), Talos Energy (TALO), HighPeak Energy (HPK), Kimbell Royalty Partners (KRP), Dorchester Minerals (DMLP), and Vermilion Energy (VET). These companies are all part of the "petroleum and natural gas" industry.
Precision Drilling vs.
Precision Drilling (NYSE:PDS) and Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT) are both energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
48.9% of Precision Drilling shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Liberty Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Precision Drilling shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Liberty Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Precision Drilling presently has a consensus target price of $112.00, indicating a potential upside of 139.83%. Liberty Energy has a consensus target price of $21.90, indicating a potential upside of 39.59%. Given Precision Drilling's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Precision Drilling is more favorable than Liberty Energy.
Liberty Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Precision Drilling. Liberty Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Precision Drilling, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Precision Drilling has a beta of 2.05, indicating that its stock price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Energy has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Precision Drilling received 251 more outperform votes than Liberty Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.48% of users gave Precision Drilling an outperform vote while only 62.68% of users gave Liberty Energy an outperform vote.
Liberty Energy has a net margin of 7.32% compared to Precision Drilling's net margin of 5.87%. Liberty Energy's return on equity of 14.28% beat Precision Drilling's return on equity.
Precision Drilling pays an annual dividend of ($99.9990) per share and has a dividend yield of -214.1%. Liberty Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Precision Drilling pays out -1,858.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Liberty Energy pays out 17.1% 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.
In the previous week, Liberty Energy had 20 more articles in the media than Precision Drilling. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Liberty Energy and 6 mentions for Precision Drilling. Liberty Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Precision Drilling's score of -0.09 indicating that Liberty Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Liberty Energy beats Precision Drilling on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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