Financial Comparison: Enerflex (EFXT) & Its Peers

Enerflex (NYSE:EFXT) is one of 178 publicly-traded companies in the “Energy Equipment & Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare Enerflex to related companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk and valuation.

Dividends

Enerflex pays an annual dividend of $0.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Enerflex pays out 30.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Energy Equipment & Services” companies pay a dividend yield of 2.5% and pay out 55.5% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Enerflex has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

46.5% of Enerflex shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.1% of shares of all “Energy Equipment & Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 12.3% of shares of all “Energy Equipment & Services” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Enerflex and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Enerflex	$2.57 billion	$64.00 million	46.74
Enerflex Competitors	$3.15 billion	$26.09 million	26.50

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Enerflex and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Enerflex	1	2	5	0	2.50
Enerflex Competitors	1687	7160	8756	473	2.44

Enerflex currently has a consensus target price of $35.17, suggesting a potential upside of 74.96%. As a group, “Energy Equipment & Services” companies have a potential upside of 14.07%. Given Enerflex’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Enerflex is more favorable than its rivals.

Volatility and Risk

Enerflex has a beta of 1.86, indicating that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enerflex’s rivals have a beta of 0.76, indicating that their average share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Enerflex and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Enerflex	2.06%	11.76%	4.84%
Enerflex Competitors	-11.47%	6.15%	1.47%

Summary

Enerflex beats its rivals on 10 of the 15 factors compared.

About Enerflex

Enerflex Ltd. offers energy infrastructure and energy transition solutions to natural gas markets in North America, Latin America, and the Eastern Hemisphere. The company provides natural gas compression infrastructure, processing, and treated water infrastructure under contract to oil and natural gas customers; power generation rental solutions; custom and standard compression packages for reciprocating and screw compressor applications; re-engineering, re-configuration, and re-packaging of compressors for various field applications; integrated turnkey power generation, gas compression, processing facilities, natural gas compression, processing, and electric power solutions; after-market mechanical services and parts distribution, as well as maintenance solutions to the oil and natural gas industry, operations, and overhaul services; and equipment supply, parts supply, and general asset management. It also designs, engineers, manufactures, constructs, and installs modular natural gas processing equipment, low-carbon solutions, cryogenic systems, electric power solutions, and treated water solutions; and engages in the engineering, design, procurement, project management, and construction services for compression, process, treated water, and power generation equipment, as well as after-market service, parts, and operations and maintenance services for gas compression, processing, and treated water facilities in the region. The company was formerly known as Enerflex Systems Income Fund and changed its name to Enerflex Ltd. in January 2010. Enerflex Ltd. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.