RIG vs. VAL, PTEN, HP, HPK, BORR, PDS, NBR, ICD, AMNI, and EQT
Should you be buying Transocean stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Transocean include Valaris (VAL), 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 EQT (EQT). 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 stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Transocean had 7 more articles in the media than Valaris. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Transocean and 2 mentions for Valaris. Transocean's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Valaris' score of 0.33 indicating that Valaris is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of Transocean 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.
Valaris currently has a consensus price target of $99.20, indicating a potential upside of 30.91%. Transocean has a consensus price target of $7.70, indicating a potential upside of 25.92%. Given Transocean's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Valaris is more favorable than Transocean.
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 has a net margin of 44.93% compared to Valaris' net margin of -13.27%. Transocean's return on equity of 3.81% beat Valaris' return on equity.
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.
Valaris has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Transocean has a beta of 2.83, suggesting that its share price is 183% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Valaris beats Transocean on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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