Analyzing National Energy Services Reunited (NASDAQ:NESR) & Viridien (OTCMKTS:CGGYY)

Viridien (OTCMKTS:CGGYY) and National Energy Services Reunited (NASDAQ:NESR) are both energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Viridien and National Energy Services Reunited, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Viridien	0	0	0	0	0.00
National Energy Services Reunited	0	0	9	1	3.10

National Energy Services Reunited has a consensus price target of $33.57, suggesting a potential downside of 3.47%. Given National Energy Services Reunited’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe National Energy Services Reunited is more favorable than Viridien.

Profitability

This table compares Viridien and National Energy Services Reunited’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Viridien	7.49%	8.17%	3.01%
National Energy Services Reunited	5.77%	12.07%	6.22%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

15.5% of National Energy Services Reunited shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.7% of National Energy Services Reunited shares are owned 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.

Risk and Volatility

Viridien has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Energy Services Reunited has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Viridien and National Energy Services Reunited”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Viridien	$1.08 billion	0.67	$12.90 million	$17.00	5.91
National Energy Services Reunited	$1.32 billion	2.65	$51.13 million	$0.92	37.80

National Energy Services Reunited has higher revenue and earnings than Viridien. Viridien is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Energy Services Reunited, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

National Energy Services Reunited beats Viridien on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Viridien

CGG engages in the provision of data, products, services, and solutions in Earth science, data science, sensing, and monitoring in North America, Latin America, the Central and South Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through two segments: Data, Digital & Energy Transition (DDE); and Sensing & Monitoring (SMO). The DDE segments engages in the developing and licensing Earth data seismic surveys; processing and imaging seismic data; sale of seismic data processing software under the Geovation brand; provision of geoscience and petroleum engineering consulting services; and collecting, developing, and licensing geological data. The SMO segment is involved in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of seismic equipment for the land and marine seismic data acquisition, including seismic recording equipment, software, and seismic sources for land vibrators or marine sources, and sensing and monitoring equipment and solutions under the Sercel, Metrolog, GRC, DeRegt, and Geocomp brand names. This segment also provides customer support services, such as training. It provides its solutions for natural resources, environmental, infrastructure, energy transition, and digital applications. The company was formerly known as Compagnie Générale de Géophysique Veritas SA and changed its name to CGG in 2013. CGG was incorporated in 1931 and is headquartered in Massy, France.

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.