CLB vs. XPRO, OII, HLX, ACDC, RES, PFHC, WTTR, PUMP, NESR, and ARIS
Should you be buying Core Laboratories stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Core Laboratories include Expro Group (XPRO), Oceaneering International (OII), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), ProFrac (ACDC), 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.
Core Laboratories (NYSE:CLB) and Expro Group (NYSE:XPRO) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Core Laboratories received 462 more outperform votes than Expro Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.18% of users gave Core Laboratories an outperform vote while only 29.17% of users gave Expro Group an outperform vote.
97.8% of Core Laboratories shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of Expro Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Core Laboratories shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Expro Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Expro Group had 1 more articles in the media than Core Laboratories. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Expro Group and 1 mentions for Core Laboratories. Expro Group's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Core Laboratories' score of 0.99 indicating that Expro Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Core Laboratories has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Expro Group. Expro Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Core Laboratories, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Core Laboratories currently has a consensus target price of $18.75, suggesting a potential upside of 0.05%. Expro Group has a consensus target price of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 23.01%. Given Expro Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Expro Group is more favorable than Core Laboratories.
Core Laboratories has a net margin of 8.18% compared to Expro Group's net margin of -1.26%. Core Laboratories' return on equity of 15.71% beat Expro Group's return on equity.
Core Laboratories has a beta of 2.4, indicating that its stock price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Expro Group has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Core Laboratories beats Expro Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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