Innovex International (INVX) and The Competition Financial Review

Innovex International (NYSE:INVX) is one of 25 publicly-traded companies in the “Oil & gas field machinery” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Innovex International to related companies based on the strength of its valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations for Innovex International and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Innovex International	1	0	0	0	1.00
Innovex International Competitors	192	1395	1688	47	2.48

Innovex International currently has a consensus price target of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.12%. As a group, “Oil & gas field machinery” companies have a potential upside of 30.80%. Given Innovex International’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Innovex International has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Innovex International and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Innovex International	12.31%	-0.73%	-0.61%
Innovex International Competitors	2.62%	7.27%	4.56%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

73.2% of shares of all “Oil & gas field machinery” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Innovex International shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of shares of all “Oil & gas field machinery” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Innovex International has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Innovex International’s peers have a beta of 1.42, suggesting that their average share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Innovex International and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Innovex International	$550.34 million	$600,000.00	9.24
Innovex International Competitors	$4.39 billion	-$154.22 million	12.47

Innovex International’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Innovex International. Innovex International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Innovex International peers beat Innovex International on 11 of the 13 factors compared.

Innovex International Company Profile

Innovex Downhole Solutions Inc. designs, manufactures and installs mission-critical drilling & deployment, well construction, completion, production and fishing & intervention solutions to support upstream onshore and offshore activities. Innovex Downhole Solutions Inc., formerly known as Dril-Quip, is based in HOUSTON.