NGS vs. NR, DRQ, TTI, OIS, FET, GEOS, GIFI, DWSN, SLB, and HAL
Should you be buying Natural Gas Services Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Natural Gas Services Group include Newpark Resources (NR), Dril-Quip (DRQ), TETRA Technologies (TTI), Oil States International (OIS), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), Geospace Technologies (GEOS), Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI), Dawson Geophysical (DWSN), Schlumberger (SLB), and Halliburton (HAL). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Newpark Resources (NYSE:NR) and Natural Gas Services Group (NYSE:NGS) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Newpark Resources currently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.72%. Natural Gas Services Group has a consensus target price of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.27%. Given Natural Gas Services Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Newpark Resources is more favorable than Natural Gas Services Group.
Newpark Resources received 49 more outperform votes than Natural Gas Services Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.49% of users gave Newpark Resources an outperform vote while only 58.15% of users gave Natural Gas Services Group an outperform vote.
Newpark Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Natural Gas Services Group. Natural Gas Services Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Newpark Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.8% of Newpark Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.6% of Natural Gas Services Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of Newpark Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Natural Gas Services Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Newpark Resources had 5 more articles in the media than Natural Gas Services Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Newpark Resources and 1 mentions for Natural Gas Services Group. Newpark Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Natural Gas Services Group's score of 1.10 indicating that Natural Gas Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Natural Gas Services Group has a net margin of 7.21% compared to Natural Gas Services Group's net margin of 2.25%. Natural Gas Services Group's return on equity of 6.67% beat Newpark Resources' return on equity.
Newpark Resources has a beta of 2.78, meaning that its stock price is 178% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Natural Gas Services Group has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Newpark Resources beats Natural Gas Services Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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