VAL vs. RIG, PTEN, HP, HPK, BORR, PDS, NBR, ICD, AMNI, and CTRA
Should you be buying Valaris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Valaris include Transocean (RIG), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Helmerich & Payne (HP), HighPeak Energy (HPK), Borr Drilling (BORR), Precision Drilling (PDS), Nabors Industries (NBR), Independence Contract Drilling (ICD), American Noble Gas (AMNI), and Coterra Energy (CTRA). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Valaris (NYSE:VAL) and Transocean (NYSE:RIG) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
Valaris has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Transocean has a beta of 2.83, indicating that its stock price is 183% more volatile than the S&P 500.
96.7% of Valaris shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.7% of Transocean shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Valaris shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of Transocean shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Valaris has a net margin of 44.93% compared to Transocean's net margin of -13.27%. Valaris' return on equity of 3.81% beat Transocean's return on equity.
Transocean received 903 more outperform votes than Valaris when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.72% of users gave Transocean an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave Valaris an outperform vote.
Valaris presently has a consensus price target of $99.20, indicating a potential upside of 31.10%. Transocean has a consensus price target of $7.70, indicating a potential upside of 25.41%. Given Valaris' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Valaris is more favorable than Transocean.
Valaris has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Transocean. Transocean is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Valaris, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Transocean had 1 more articles in the media than Valaris. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Transocean and 3 mentions for Valaris. Valaris' average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Transocean's score of 0.29 indicating that Valaris is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Valaris beats Transocean on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding VAL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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