Analyzing Innovex International (INVX) and The Competition

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Innovex International and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Innovex International	1	0	0	0	1.00
Innovex International Competitors	192	1395	1688	47	2.48

Innovex International presently has a consensus target price of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.62%. As a group, “Oil & gas field machinery” companies have a potential upside of 32.05%. Given Innovex International’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Innovex International has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Institutional and Insider 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds 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%

Volatility & Risk

Innovex International has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share 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 share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Innovex International and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Innovex International	$550.34 million	$600,000.00	8.89
Innovex International Competitors	$4.39 billion	-$154.22 million	12.32

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.