Based on key financial metrics such as the price-to-sales ratio, shareholder yield and the price-earnings ratio, the following 5 stocks made the list for top value stocks in the Oil & Gas - Related Services and Equipment industry. Those looking for value stocks to add to their portfolio may want to use this list as a starting point for further investment research.

Latest Oil & Gas - Related Services and Equipment Stock News

Before choosing which top Oil & Gas - Related Services and Equipment stock to buy, be sure to conduct proper due diligence: analyze various financial metrics and look at historical data, public statements and news coverage.

The fundamental outlook for the oil & gas related services & equipment sub-industry is neutral for the next 12 months. Oil prices rebounded from lows during the pandemic to all-time highs in spring of 2022. Global oil demand is expected to exceed pre-pandemic levels, but inadequate supply levels add additional stress to an already tight market. Oil producers are increasing their capital spending for 2022, paving the way for more production while driving up demand for oil services. Despite this, the industry faces challenges heading into late 2022. Labor, equipment maintenance and supplies are all getting more costly. Oil services companies are also experiencing a shortage of sand used for fracking, rigs and fracking crews.

Why Focus on Undervalued Oil & Gas - Related Services and Equipment Stocks?

Value investors seek to buy stocks at a discount to their intrinsic value. Long-term returns show that such strategies are advantageous. Value stocks, as a group, tend to outperform growth stocks over extended periods of time. Typically, value investors perform financial analysis of numerous metrics, don’t follow the herd and are long-term investors.

AAII’s A+ Investor Value Grade is derived from a stock’s Value Score. The Value Score is the percentile rank of the average of the percentile ranks of the price-to-sales ratio, price-earnings ratio, enterprise-value-to-EBITDA (EV/EBITDA) ratio, shareholder yield, price-to-book-value ratio and price-to-free-cash-flow ratio. The score is variable, meaning it can consider all six ratios or, should any of the six ratios not be valid, the remaining ratios that are valid. To be assigned a Value Score, stocks must have a valid (non-null) ratio and corresponding ranking for at least two of the six valuation ratios.

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AAII’s proprietary stock grades come with A+ Investor. These offer intuitive A–F grades for more than just value. It is possible for a stock to appear cheap based on one valuation metric but appear expensive on another. It is also possible for one valuation ratio to be associated with outperforming stocks during certain periods of time but not others. Some stocks may even have null values for certain metrics like the price-earnings ratio or the price-to-book ratio but not others. An example of this would be a company with losses instead of profits or a negative book value because of heavy borrowing. Negative earnings or book value result in non-meaningful ratios that are left blank or null.

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5 Undervalued Oil & Gas - Related Services and Equipment Stocks

Of course, there are countless value stocks that are worth mentioning, but this is a concise list of the top 5 undervalued stocks in the Oil & Gas - Related Services and Equipment industry for Thursday, April 06, 2023. Let’s take a closer look at their individual scores to see how they measure up against each other and the Oil & Gas - Related Services and Equipment industry median.

The Value Grade is assigned based on how each stock’s composite valuation compares to all other stocks.

The process for assigning grades starts with each variable for a given stock. The percentile rankings for all valid ratios that a stock has are calculated. So, for instance, a stock could have a price-to-book ranking in the 43rd percentile, a price-earnings ranking in the 67th percentile, a price-to-sales ranking in the 23rd percentile, etc. Then, those rankings are averaged for each stock. (A minimum of two valid variables are required, though all six will be used if available.)

Once the average of the individual variables is calculated, that average is ranked against all stocks. Put another way, each stock’s composite valuation is compared to all other stocks. These ranks are then sorted into quintiles from the cheapest 20% (a grade of A) to the most expensive 20% (a grade of F).

As always, we recommend that you conduct proper due diligence and research before investing in any security. We also suggest that investors utilize numerous grades, not just value, when it comes to deciding whether a company is a good fit for their allocation needs.

Liberty Energy Inc’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

Liberty Energy Inc. is an integrated energy services and technology company. The Company is focused on providing hydraulic services and related technologies to onshore oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P;) companies in North America. It offers customers hydraulic fracturing services, together with complementary services, including wireline services, proppant delivery solutions, data analytics, related goods (including its sand mine operations), and technologies. It primarily provides its services in Permian Basin, the Eagle Ford Shale, the Denver-Julesburg Basin (the DJ Basin), the Williston Basin, the San Juan Basin, the Powder River Basin, the Haynesville Shale, the South Central Oklahoma Oil Province and Sooner Trend Anadarko Canadian Kingfisher (collectively, SCOOP/STACK), the Marcellus Shale, the Utica Shale, and the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Its hydraulic fracturing fleet consists of mobile hydraulic fracturing units and other auxiliary heavy equipment.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Liberty Energy Inc has a Value Score of 74, which is considered to be undervalued.

When you look at Liberty Energy Inc’s price-to-sales ratio at 0.59 compared to the industry median at 0.69, this company has a lower price relative to revenue compared to its peers. This could make Liberty Energy Inc’s stock more attractive for value investors.

Liberty Energy Inc’s price-earnings ratio is 6.38 compared to the industry median at 20.99. This means it has a lower share price relative to earnings compared to its peers. This could make Liberty Energy Inc more attractive for value investors.

Now, let’s assess Liberty Energy Inc’s EV/EBITDA ratio, also known as enterprise multiple. At 3.8, when compared to the industry median of 8.3, the company may be considered undervalued in relation to its peers. Value investors could use the enterprise multiple to identify stocks that are considered overvalued or undervalued relative to their industry.

Shareholder yield is the sum of a stock’s dividend yield (paid over previous 12 months minus special dividends) and the percentage of net share buybacks over the previous 12 months. Liberty Energy Inc’s shareholder yield is higher than its industry median ratio of (0.74%). Value investors may look for an attractive shareholder yield because it can be a powerful tool for identifying if the company has a good management team.

As one of the most common value metrics, the price-to-book ratio evaluates a company’s current market price relative to its book value. Liberty Energy Inc’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its industry median ratio of 1.21. This could make Liberty Energy Inc less attractive to investors looking for a new addition to their portfolio.

Lastly, let’s take a look at Liberty Energy Inc’s price-to-free-cash-flow ratio (P/FCF), which can indicate a company’s market value relative to its operating cash flow. Liberty Energy Inc’s price-to-free-cash-flow ratio is higher than its industry median ratio of 30.01. This could make Liberty Energy Inc less attractive because the higher P/FCF ratio indicates that Liberty Energy Inc is undervalued. The P/FCF ratio metric can also be viewed over a long-term time frame to see if the company's cash flow to share price value is generally improving or worsening.

Nine Energy Service Inc’s Value Grade

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Nine Energy Service, Inc. is a completion services provider that targets unconventional oil and gas resource development across North American basins and abroad. The Company partners with its exploration and production (E&P;) customers to design and deploy downhole solutions and technology to prepare horizontal, multistage wells for production. It provides its comprehensive completion solutions across a diverse set of well-types, including the complex, technically demanding unconventional wells. It offers a variety of completion applications and technologies to match customer needs across the broadest addressable completions market. The Company?s well solutions range from cementing the well at the initial stages of the completion, preparing the well for stimulation, isolating all the stages of an extended reach lateral, and the drilling out of isolation tools. The Company provides services integral to the completion of unconventional wells through a range of tools and methodologies.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Nine Energy Service Inc has a Value Score of 61, which is considered to be undervalued.

Nine Energy Service Inc’s price-earnings ratio is 13.4 compared to the industry median at 21.0. This means that it has a lower price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes Nine Energy Service Inc more attractive for value investors.

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North American Construction Group Ltd’s Value Grade

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North American Construction Group Ltd. is a Canada-based company that provides a range of mining and heavy construction services to customers in the resource development and industrial construction sectors within Western Canada but also in other parts of Canada, the United States and Australia. The Company's operating divisions include Heavy Construction and Mining, and Equipment Maintenance Services. The Heavy Construction and Mining division is engaged in hard rock and oil sands mining, overburden removal, mine site development, and mine reclamation. This division also provides constructability design reviews, budgetary cost estimates, and a range of planning and scheduling services. The Equipment Maintenance Services division offers maintenance procedures on-site, as well as in its multiple shop facilities. It provides various services, including fuel and lube servicing options, portable steaming, equipment inspections, hose manufacturing and onsite haul truck brake testing.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

North American Construction Group Ltd has a Value Score of 76, which is considered to be undervalued.

North American Construction Group Ltd’s price-earnings ratio is 10.8 compared to the industry median at 21.0. This means that it has a lower price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes North American Construction Group Ltd more attractive for value investors.

North American Construction Group Ltd’s price-to-book ratio is lower than its peers. This could make North American Construction Group Ltd more attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.21.

You can read more about North American Construction Group Ltd’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Propetro Holding Corp’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

ProPetro Holding Corp. is an integrated oilfield services company. The Company is focused on providing hydraulic fracturing, wireline and other complementary oilfield completion services to upstream oil and gas companies engaged in the exploration and production (E&P;) of North American oil and natural gas resources. Its operations are primarily focused on the Permian Basin. Its Completion Services segment includes hydraulic fracturing, cementing and wireline operations. It owns and operates a fleet of mobile hydraulic fracturing, wireline and cementing units, and other auxiliary equipment to perform completion services for E&P; companies. It provides cementing services for completion of new wells and remedial work on existing wells. It provides wireline and ancillary services, such as pumpdown on new oil well completions in the Permian Basin. The Company's coiled tubing services involve injecting coiled tubing into wells to perform completion well intervention operations.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Propetro Holding Corp has a Value Score of 73, which is considered to be undervalued.

Propetro Holding Corp’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its peers. This could make Propetro Holding Corp less attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.21.

You can read more about Propetro Holding Corp’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Select Energy Services Inc’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

Select Energy Services, Inc. is a provider of water-management and chemical solutions to the oil and gas industry in the United States. The Company operates through three segments: Water Services, Water Infrastructure and Oilfield Chemicals. The Water Services segment provides services needed to support new well completions as well as ongoing production over the life of the well, including water transfer, flowback and well testing, water containment, fluid hauling, water monitoring and water network automation. The Water Infrastructure segment develops, builds and operates semi-permanent and permanent infrastructure solutions to support both new oil and gas well development. It also offers ongoing production activity, including water sourcing, recycling and disposal of flowback and produced water, as well as the associated logistics. The Oilfield Chemicals segment provides a full suite of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, stimulation, cementing, pipelines and well completions.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Select Energy Services Inc has a Value Score of 62, which is considered to be undervalued.

Select Energy Services Inc’s price-earnings ratio is 17.1 compared to the industry median at 21.0. This means that it has a lower price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes Select Energy Services Inc more attractive for value investors.

Select Energy Services Inc’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its peers. This could make Select Energy Services Inc less attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.21.

You can read more about Select Energy Services Inc’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

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Choosing Which of the 5 Best Oil & Gas - Related Services and Equipment Stocks Is Right for You

Choosing which value stocks to invest in will ultimately depend on your individual goals and allocation; however, comparing similar value stocks in the same industry can help you analyze which might be better investments for you in the long run. So, let’s take a look at the Value Grade for all of our stocks.

• Liberty Energy Inc stock has a Value Grade of B.
• Nine Energy Service Inc stock has a Value Grade of B.
• North American Construction Group Ltd stock has a Value Grade of B.
• Propetro Holding Corp stock has a Value Grade of B.
• Select Energy Services Inc stock has a Value Grade of B.

Now that you have a bit more background about each of the 5 undervalued stocks in the Oil & Gas - Related Services and Equipment industry as well as their overall grades, it’s time for you to conduct additional research to see if these could fit your portfolio needs based on your goals and risk tolerance. AAII can help you figure out both and identify which investments align with what works best for you.

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