SDRL vs. PTEN, HP, RIG, VAL, HPK, PDS, BORR, NBR, AMNI, and KNTK
Should you be buying Seadrill stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Seadrill include Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Helmerich & Payne (HP), Transocean (RIG), Valaris (VAL), HighPeak Energy (HPK), Precision Drilling (PDS), Borr Drilling (BORR), Nabors Industries (NBR), American Noble Gas (AMNI), and Kinetik (KNTK). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Seadrill vs.
Patterson-UTI Energy (NASDAQ:PTEN) and Seadrill (NYSE:SDRL) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
Patterson-UTI Energy has a beta of 2.09, indicating that its share price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seadrill has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Patterson-UTI Energy currently has a consensus target price of $11.63, indicating a potential upside of 30.40%. Seadrill has a consensus target price of $65.75, indicating a potential upside of 72.80%. Given Seadrill's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Seadrill is more favorable than Patterson-UTI Energy.
Seadrill has a net margin of 27.79% compared to Patterson-UTI Energy's net margin of -14.73%. Seadrill's return on equity of 7.24% beat Patterson-UTI Energy's return on equity.
97.9% of Patterson-UTI Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.7% of Seadrill shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Patterson-UTI Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Seadrill has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Patterson-UTI Energy. Patterson-UTI Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seadrill, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Patterson-UTI Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Seadrill. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Patterson-UTI Energy and 0 mentions for Seadrill. Patterson-UTI Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Seadrill's score of 0.00 indicating that Patterson-UTI Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Patterson-UTI Energy received 295 more outperform votes than Seadrill when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.30% of users gave Patterson-UTI Energy an outperform vote while only 60.44% of users gave Seadrill an outperform vote.
Summary
Patterson-UTI Energy and Seadrill tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SDRL) was last updated on 1/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
