RNGR vs. ARIS, CLB, NOA, NGS, TUSK, KLXE, NINE, NCSM, RCON, and SLB
Should you be buying Ranger Energy Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ranger Energy Services include Aris Water Solutions (ARIS), Core Laboratories (CLB), North American Construction Group (NOA), Natural Gas Services Group (NGS), Mammoth Energy Services (TUSK), KLX Energy Services (KLXE), Nine Energy Service (NINE), NCS Multistage (NCSM), Recon Technology (RCON), and Schlumberger (SLB). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas field services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Aris Water Solutions (NYSE:ARIS) and Ranger Energy Services (NYSE:RNGR) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and earnings.
39.7% of Aris Water Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.1% of Ranger Energy Services shares are held by institutional investors. 22.5% of Aris Water Solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Ranger Energy Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Aris Water Solutions has a net margin of 5.73% compared to Aris Water Solutions' net margin of 2.73%. Aris Water Solutions' return on equity of 6.18% beat Ranger Energy Services' return on equity.
Ranger Energy Services has higher revenue and earnings than Aris Water Solutions. Ranger Energy Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aris Water Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aris Water Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Ranger Energy Services pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Aris Water Solutions pays out 58.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ranger Energy Services pays out 29.4% 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.
Aris Water Solutions has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ranger Energy Services has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Aris Water Solutions had 2 more articles in the media than Ranger Energy Services. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Aris Water Solutions and 4 mentions for Ranger Energy Services. Aris Water Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Ranger Energy Services' score of 0.74 indicating that Ranger Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ranger Energy Services received 248 more outperform votes than Aris Water Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.50% of users gave Ranger Energy Services an outperform vote while only 61.11% of users gave Aris Water Solutions an outperform vote.
Aris Water Solutions presently has a consensus price target of $14.93, suggesting a potential upside of 1.69%. Given Ranger Energy Services' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Aris Water Solutions is more favorable than Ranger Energy Services.
Summary
Aris Water Solutions beats Ranger Energy Services on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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