Analyzing Innovex International (INVX) & Its Competitors

Innovex International (NYSE:INVX) is one of 25 public companies in the “Oil & gas field machinery” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Innovex International to similar companies based on the strength of its earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Innovex International and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Innovex International	1	0	0	0	1.00
Innovex International Competitors	190	1393	1679	47	2.48

Innovex International presently has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.55%. As a group, “Oil & gas field machinery” companies have a potential upside of 31.29%. Given Innovex International’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Innovex International has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Risk and Volatility

Innovex International has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Innovex International’s peers have a beta of 1.42, indicating that their average stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

73.2% of shares of all “Oil & gas field machinery” companies are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Innovex International shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of shares of all “Oil & gas field machinery” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Innovex International and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Innovex International	12.31%	-0.73%	-0.61%
Innovex International Competitors	2.62%	7.27%	4.56%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Innovex International and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Innovex International	$550.34 million	$600,000.00	9.37
Innovex International Competitors	$4.36 billion	-$154.22 million	11.35

Innovex International’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Innovex International. Innovex International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Innovex International peers beat Innovex International on 11 of the 13 factors compared.

About Innovex International

Innovex Downhole Solutions Inc. designs, manufactures and installs mission-critical drilling & deployment, well construction, completion, production and fishing & intervention solutions to support upstream onshore and offshore activities. Innovex Downhole Solutions Inc., formerly known as Dril-Quip, is based in HOUSTON.