Critical Review: Core Laboratories (NYSE:CLB) vs. Glori Energy (OTCMKTS:GLRI)

Core Laboratories (NYSE:CLB) and Glori Energy (OTCMKTS:GLRI) are both energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Core Laboratories and Glori Energy, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Core Laboratories	0	4	0	0	2.00
Glori Energy	0	0	0	0	0.00

Core Laboratories currently has a consensus target price of $12.50, suggesting a potential downside of 32.83%. Given Glori Energy’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Glori Energy is more favorable than Core Laboratories.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Core Laboratories and Glori Energy”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Core Laboratories	$526.52 million	1.65	$31.40 million	$0.67	27.77
Glori Energy	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Core Laboratories has higher revenue and earnings than Glori Energy.

Profitability

This table compares Core Laboratories and Glori Energy’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Core Laboratories	6.04%	12.09%	5.50%
Glori Energy	N/A	N/A	N/A

Volatility & Risk

Core Laboratories has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Glori Energy has a beta of 46.46, suggesting that its share price is 4,546% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

97.8% of Core Laboratories shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Core Laboratories shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 46.2% of Glori Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Core Laboratories beats Glori Energy on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Core Laboratories

Core Laboratories Inc. provides reservoir description and production enhancement services and products to the oil and gas industry in the United States, and internationally. It operates through Reservoir Description and Production Enhancement segments. The Reservoir Description segment includes the characterization of petroleum reservoir rock and reservoir fluid samples to enhance production and improve recovery of crude oil and gas from its clients' reservoirs. It offers laboratory-based analytical and field services to characterize properties of crude oil and oil delivered products; and proprietary and joint industry studies, as well as services that support carbon capture, utilization and storage, geothermal projects, and the evaluation and appraisal of mining activities. The Production Enhancement segment provides services and products relating to reservoir well completions, perforations, stimulations, production, and well abandonment. It offers integrated diagnostic services to evaluate and monitor the effectiveness of well completions and to develop solutions to improve the effectiveness of enhanced oil recovery projects. The company markets and sells its products through a combination of sales representatives, technical seminars, trade shows, and print advertising, as well as through distributors. Core Laboratories Inc. was founded in 1936 and is based in Houston, Texas.

About Glori Energy

Glori Energy Inc., an energy technology and oil production company, provides services to third party exploration and production companies in North America and Brazil. It operates through Oil and Gas, and AERO Services segments. The Oil and Gas segment produces and develops oil and natural gas interests. The AERO Services segment offers biotechnology solutions of enhanced oil recovery through a two-step process, including analysis phase, reservoir screening process that obtains field samples and evaluates potential of AERO system; and field deployment phase that deploys skid mounted injection equipment. Glori Energy Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.