Nabors Industries (NYSE:NBR) & WBI (NYSE:WBI) Head to Head Analysis

Nabors Industries (NYSE:NBR) and WBI (NYSE:WBI) are both energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

81.9% of Nabors Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% of Nabors Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 50.6% of WBI shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Risk & Volatility

Nabors Industries has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WBI has a beta of 0.14, meaning that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Nabors Industries and WBI’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nabors Industries	-1.17%	-3.98%	-0.85%
WBI	1.19%	1.19%	0.56%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Nabors Industries and WBI, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nabors Industries	1	5	2	0	2.12
WBI	0	2	4	2	3.00

Nabors Industries presently has a consensus target price of $103.00, indicating a potential upside of 33.67%. WBI has a consensus target price of $36.62, indicating a potential upside of 38.96%. Given WBI’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe WBI is more favorable than Nabors Industries.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Nabors Industries and WBI”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nabors Industries	$3.21 billion	0.36	$286.62 million	($4.65)	-16.57
WBI	$525.55 million	6.19	$11.89 million	$0.20	131.78

Nabors Industries has higher revenue and earnings than WBI. Nabors Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WBI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

WBI beats Nabors Industries on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Nabors Industries

Nabors Industries is an international drilling contractor that provides services and technology to the oil and natural gas industry. Its operations include land-based drilling rigs and offshore platform rigs, which it supplies to exploration and production companies. The company also offers services and technologies used to plan and carry out drilling operations. These include directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling systems, wellbore placement services, and software and automation tools designed to support drilling performance.

About WBI

WaterBridge Infrastructure LLC is an integrated, pure-play water infrastructure company. WaterBridge Infrastructure LLC is based in HOUSTON.