Flotek Industries (FTK) & Its Rivals Head to Head Review

Flotek Industries (NYSE:FTK) is one of 295 publicly-traded companies in the “Chemicals” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare Flotek Industries to related businesses based on the strength of its valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.

Risk & Volatility

Flotek Industries has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flotek Industries’ competitors have a beta of 0.93, indicating that their average stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

10.9% of Flotek Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.4% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Flotek Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.7% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are held by 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 Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Flotek Industries and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Flotek Industries	0	0	4	1	3.20
Flotek Industries Competitors	3248	12212	14131	519	2.40

Flotek Industries presently has a consensus price target of $34.67, indicating a potential upside of 41.70%. As a group, “Chemicals” companies have a potential upside of 8.84%. Given Flotek Industries’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Flotek Industries is more favorable than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares Flotek Industries and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Flotek Industries	8.81%	24.56%	12.01%
Flotek Industries Competitors	-59.14%	-0.41%	-1.37%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Flotek Industries and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Flotek Industries	$237.26 million	$30.53 million	30.58
Flotek Industries Competitors	$6.40 billion	$222.31 million	6.28

Flotek Industries’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Flotek Industries. Flotek Industries is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Flotek Industries beats its competitors on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

Flotek Industries Company Profile

Flotek Industries, Inc. operates as a technology-driven green chemistry and data company that serves customers across industrial and commercial markets in the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and internationally. It operates through two segments: Chemistry Technologies (CT) and Data Analytics (DA). The CT segment designs, develops, manufactures, packages, distributes, delivers, and markets green specialty chemicals that enhance the profitability of hydrocarbon producers, as well as green specialty chemistries, and logistics and technology services. This segment primarily serves integrated oil and gas, oilfield services, independent oil and gas, national and state-owned oil, geothermal energy, solar energy, and alternative energy companies. The DA segment designs, develops, produces, sells, and supports equipment and services that create and provide valuable information on the composition and properties of energy customers' hydrocarbon fluids. It sells its products directly through a mix of in-house sales professionals, as well as contractual agency agreements. Flotek Industries, Inc. was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.