ACDC vs. LBRT, XPRO, OII, HLX, RES, PFHC, WTTR, PUMP, NESR, and ARIS
Should you be buying ProFrac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProFrac include Liberty Energy (LBRT), Expro Group (XPRO), Oceaneering International (OII), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), RPC (RES), ProFrac (PFHC), Select Water Solutions (WTTR), ProPetro (PUMP), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), and Aris Water Solutions (ARIS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas field services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT) and ProFrac (NASDAQ:ACDC) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Liberty Energy has higher revenue and earnings than ProFrac. ProFrac is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Liberty Energy presently has a consensus target price of $25.50, indicating a potential upside of 3.28%. ProFrac has a consensus target price of $11.88, indicating a potential upside of 23.44%. Given Liberty Energy's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ProFrac is more favorable than Liberty Energy.
Liberty Energy has a beta of 1.83, suggesting that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ProFrac has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Liberty Energy has a net margin of 10.43% compared to Liberty Energy's net margin of -5.35%. ProFrac's return on equity of 26.46% beat Liberty Energy's return on equity.
98.2% of Liberty Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.8% of ProFrac shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of Liberty Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of ProFrac shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, ProFrac had 6 more articles in the media than Liberty Energy. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for ProFrac and 8 mentions for Liberty Energy. ProFrac's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Liberty Energy's score of 1.29 indicating that Liberty Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Liberty Energy received 333 more outperform votes than ProFrac when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.43% of users gave Liberty Energy an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave ProFrac an outperform vote.
Summary
Liberty Energy beats ProFrac on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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