VAL vs. RIG, PTEN, HP, HPK, BORR, PDS, NBR, ICD, AMNI, and CTRA
Should you be buying Valaris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Valaris include Transocean (RIG), 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 Coterra Energy (CTRA). 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 investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
Valaris presently has a consensus target price of $99.20, indicating a potential upside of 28.18%. Transocean has a consensus target price of $7.70, indicating a potential upside of 23.99%. Given Valaris' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Valaris is more favorable than Transocean.
In the previous week, Valaris and Valaris both had 4 articles in the media. Valaris' average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Transocean's score of 0.72 indicating that Valaris is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Valaris has a net margin of 44.93% compared to Transocean's net margin of -13.27%. Valaris' return on equity of 3.81% beat Transocean's return on equity.
96.7% of Valaris shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.7% of Transocean shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Valaris shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of Transocean shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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 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.
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.
Summary
Valaris beats Transocean on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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