USA Compression Partners (NYSE:USAC – Get Free Report) and National Energy Services Reunited (NASDAQ:NESR – Get Free Report) are both energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and risk.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares USA Compression Partners and National Energy Services Reunited”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| USA Compression Partners | $950.45 million | 3.09 | $99.57 million | $0.68 | 36.69 |
| National Energy Services Reunited | $1.31 billion | 0.47 | $78.13 million | $0.81 | 7.93 |
Volatility and Risk
USA Compression Partners has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Energy Services Reunited has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares USA Compression Partners and National Energy Services Reunited’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| USA Compression Partners | 9.99% | -81.01% | 3.58% |
| National Energy Services Reunited | 5.87% | 10.96% | 5.46% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
47.8% of USA Compression Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.6% of National Energy Services Reunited shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.6% of National Energy Services Reunited shares are owned by company 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.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for USA Compression Partners and National Energy Services Reunited, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| USA Compression Partners | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.75 |
| National Energy Services Reunited | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3.00 |
USA Compression Partners presently has a consensus price target of $26.25, indicating a potential upside of 5.21%. National Energy Services Reunited has a consensus price target of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 133.64%. Given National Energy Services Reunited’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe National Energy Services Reunited is more favorable than USA Compression Partners.
Summary
National Energy Services Reunited beats USA Compression Partners on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About USA Compression Partners
USA Compression Partners, LP provides compression services under term contracts with customers in the natural gas and crude oil industries in the United States. The company engineers, designs, operates, services, and repairs its compression units; and maintains related support inventory and equipment. It also provides compression services in various shale plays, including the Utica, Marcellus, Permian Basin, Delaware Basin, Eagle Ford, Mississippi Lime, Granite Wash, Woodford, Barnett, Haynesville, Niobrara, and Fayetteville shales. As of December 31, 2017, the company had approximately 1,799,781 horsepower in its fleet. It serves oil companies; and independent producers, processors, gatherers, and transporters of natural gas and crude oil. USA Compression GP, LLC operates as the general partner of USA Compression Partners, LP. The company was formerly known as Compression Holdings, LP, and changed its name to USA Compression Partners, LP in June 2011. USA Compression Partners, LP was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
About National Energy Services Reunited
National Energy Services Reunited Corp. provides oilfield services in the Middle East and North Africa region. The company’s Production Services segment offers hydraulic fracturing services; coiled tubing services, including nitrogen lifting, fishing, milling, clean-out, scale removal, and other well applications; stimulation and pumping services; primary and remedial cementing services; nitrogen services; filtration services, as well as frac tanks and pumping units; and pipeline and industrial services, such as water filling and hydro testing, nitrogen purging, and de-gassing and pressure testing, as well as cutting/welding and cooling down piping/vessels systems. This segment also provides production assurance chemicals; integrated project management projects; artificial lift services; and surface and subsurface safety systems, high-pressure packer systems, flow controls, service tools, expandable liner technology, vacuum insulated tubing technology for steam applications, and engineering capabilities with manufacturing capacity and testing facilities, as well as sources and treats water for oil and gas, municipal, and industrial use. Its Drilling and Evaluation Services segment offers drilling and workover rigs; rigs and integrated services; fishing and remediation solutions; directional and turbines drilling; drilling fluid systems and related technologies; wireline logging; slickline services for removal of scale, wax and sand build-up, setting plugs, changing out gas lift valves, and fishing and other well applications; and well testing services to measure solids, gas, and oil and water produced from well, as well as rents drilling tools. This segment also provides oilfield solutions for thru-tubing intervention; tubular running services; and a range of wellhead products, flow control equipment, and frac equipment. National Energy Services Reunited Corp. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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