Eco-Stim Energy Solutions (NASDAQ:ESES) and Quintana Energy Services (NYSE:QES) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.
Earnings and Valuation
Get Eco-Stim Energy Solutions alerts:This table compares Eco-Stim Energy Solutions and Quintana Energy Services’ gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Eco-Stim Energy Solutions | $44.02 million | 0.04 | -$26.94 million | ($0.26) | -0.10 |
| Quintana Energy Services | $438.03 million | 0.37 | -$21.15 million | ($0.05) | -96.80 |
Quintana Energy Services has higher revenue and earnings than Eco-Stim Energy Solutions. Quintana Energy Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eco-Stim Energy Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Eco-Stim Energy Solutions and Quintana Energy Services’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Eco-Stim Energy Solutions | -104.29% | -88.08% | -50.65% |
| Quintana Energy Services | -2.25% | -7.57% | -4.37% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Eco-Stim Energy Solutions and Quintana Energy Services, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Eco-Stim Energy Solutions | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.50 |
| Quintana Energy Services | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2.57 |
Eco-Stim Energy Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $1.90, suggesting a potential upside of 7,207.69%. Quintana Energy Services has a consensus price target of $10.75, suggesting a potential upside of 122.11%. Given Eco-Stim Energy Solutions’ higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Eco-Stim Energy Solutions is more favorable than Quintana Energy Services.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
83.1% of Eco-Stim Energy Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.0% of Quintana Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.7% of Eco-Stim Energy Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Quintana Energy Services beats Eco-Stim Energy Solutions on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Eco-Stim Energy Solutions
Eco-Stim Energy Solutions, Inc. provides oilfield services in the United States and Argentina. The company offers pressure pumping, coiled tubing, and field management services to the upstream oil and gas industry. Its customers consist primarily of international oil and gas exploration and production companies, including national oil companies, local privately-held exploration and production companies, and other service companies. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
About Quintana Energy Services
Quintana Energy Services Inc. provides oilfield services to onshore oil and natural gas exploration and production companies operating in conventional and unconventional plays in the United States. It operates through four segments: Directional Drilling Services, Pressure Pumping Services, Pressure Control Services, and Wireline Services. The Directional Drilling Services segment provides directional, horizontal, underbalanced, and measurement-while-drilling, as well as rental tool and pipe inspection services. The Pressure Pumping Services segment provides hydraulic fracturing stimulation services; cementing services, such as surface- and intermediate-casing and long-string cementing services; and a range of acid stimulation services comprising CO2 foamed acid stimulation services. As of December 31, 2017, this segment had a pressure pumping fleet of 245,925 hydraulic horsepower. The Pressure Control Services segment offers coiled tubing, rig-assisted snubbing, nitrogen, fluid pumping, and well control services for drilling, completion, and workover activities. As of December 31, 2017, this segment had a fleet of 23 coiled tubing, 36 rig-assisted snubbing, and 24 nitrogen pumping units. The Wireline Services segment offers pump-down services for setting plugs between frac stages, as well as the deployment of perforation equipment in connection with plug-and-perf operations; and other pump-down and cased-hole wireline services, including electro-mechanical pipe-cutting and punching. This segment also provides cased-hole production logging, injection profiling, stimulation performance evaluation, and water break-through identification services; and industrial logging services for cavern, storage, and injection wells, as well as operates Archer's POINT proprietary detection system and SPACE imaging and measurement platform in the land market. As of December 31, 2017, it owned 49 wireline units. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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