KLX Energy Services (NASDAQ:KLXE – Get Free Report) and Smart Sand (NASDAQ:SND – Get Free Report) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
42.7% of KLX Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of Smart Sand shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% of KLX Energy Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 34.0% of Smart Sand shares 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.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares KLX Energy Services and Smart Sand”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| KLX Energy Services | $709.30 million | 0.05 | -$53.00 million | ($4.07) | -0.45 |
| Smart Sand | $311.37 million | 0.31 | $2.99 million | $0.01 | 223.00 |
Smart Sand has lower revenue, but higher earnings than KLX Energy Services. KLX Energy Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smart Sand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk and Volatility
KLX Energy Services has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smart Sand has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares KLX Energy Services and Smart Sand’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| KLX Energy Services | -10.59% | N/A | -13.81% |
| Smart Sand | 0.26% | -8.83% | -6.20% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings for KLX Energy Services and Smart Sand, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| KLX Energy Services | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Smart Sand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Summary
Smart Sand beats KLX Energy Services on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About KLX Energy Services
KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc. provides drilling, completions, production, and well intervention services and products to the onshore oil and gas producing regions of the United States. The company operates through three segments: Southwest, Rocky Mountains, and Northeast/Mid-Con. It provides directional drilling services; downhole navigational and rental tools businesses and support services, including well planning, site supervision, accommodation rentals, and other drilling rentals; and various technologies, including gamma ray, azimuthal gamma ray, real-time continuous inclination and azimuth, rotary steerable, pressure-while-drilling, mode shifting, stick-slip and destructive dynamics, dynamic sequencing and real-time shock, and vibration modules. The company also offers coiled tubing and nitrogen services; wireline services, including pump down perforating, logging, and pipe recover; pressure control products and services; wellhead and hydraulic fracturing rental products and services; flowback and testing services; thru-tubing technologies and services; rig assist snubbing services; cementing products and services; acidizing and pressure pumping services; and downhole completion tools, such as toe sleeves, wet shoe cementing bypass subs, composite plugs, dissolvable plugs, liner hangers, stage cementing tools, inflatables, float and casing equipment, and retrievable completion tools. In addition, it provides production services comprising maintenance-related intervention services; production blow out preventers; mechanical wireline services; slick line services; hydro-testing services; premium tubulars; and other specialized production tools. Further, the company provides intervention services consisting of technicians and equipment that are focused on providing customers engineered solutions to downhole complications. KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
About Smart Sand
Smart Sand, Inc., an integrated frac and industrial sand supply and services company, engages in the excavation, processing, and sale of sands or proppant for use in hydraulic fracturing operations in the oil and gas industry in the United States. It also provides proppant logistics services; and wellsite storage solutions through SmartSystems products and services. The company sells its products primarily to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies, oilfield service companies, and industrial manufacturers. Smart Sand, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Spring, Texas.
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