Financial Survey: Petrofac (OTCMKTS:POFCY) and NXT Energy Solutions (OTCMKTS:NSFDF)

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Petrofac and NXT Energy Solutions”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Petrofac	$2.50 billion	0.00	-$505.00 million	N/A	N/A
NXT Energy Solutions	$470,000.00	59.32	-$6.62 million	($0.04)	-5.99

NXT Energy Solutions has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Petrofac.

Risk and Volatility

Petrofac has a beta of 2.8, indicating that its share price is 180% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NXT Energy Solutions has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

26.2% of NXT Energy Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.1% of NXT Energy Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Petrofac and NXT Energy Solutions’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Petrofac	N/A	N/A	N/A
NXT Energy Solutions	-29.96%	-49.12%	-22.61%

Summary

Petrofac beats NXT Energy Solutions on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Petrofac

Petrofac Limited designs, builds, manages, and maintains infrastructure for the energy industries in the United Kingdom, Algeria, Thailand, Oman, Kuwait, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, the Netherlands, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Engineering & Construction (E&C); Asset Solutions; and Integrated Energy Services (IES). The E&C segment provides onshore and offshore engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning services. The Asset Solutions segment offers concept, feasibility, and front-end engineering design services, as well as manages and maintains onshore and offshore operations. The IES segment focuses on delivering value from the existing asset portfolio. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in St Helier, Jersey.

About NXT Energy Solutions

NXT Energy Solutions Inc., a technology company, provides services to the oil and gas industry through its proprietary stress field detection (SFD) technology worldwide. Its SFD technology, a remote sensing airborne survey system utilizes quantum-scale sensors to detect gravity field perturbations in an airborne survey method which can be used onshore and offshore to remotely identify traps and reservoirs with hydrocarbon and geothermal exploration potential. The company was formerly known as Energy Exploration Technologies Inc. and changed its name to NXT Energy Solutions Inc. in September 2008. NXT Energy Solutions Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.