Financial Review: Solaris Energy Infrastructure (NYSE:SEI) and Weatherford International (OTCMKTS:WFTLF)

Weatherford International (OTCMKTS:WFTLF) and Solaris Energy Infrastructure (NYSE:SEI) are both energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

67.4% of Solaris Energy Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. 20.2% of Solaris Energy Infrastructure shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for Weatherford International and Solaris Energy Infrastructure, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Weatherford International	0	0	0	0	0.00
Solaris Energy Infrastructure	1	1	10	0	2.75

Solaris Energy Infrastructure has a consensus price target of $86.33, suggesting a potential upside of 60.14%. Given Solaris Energy Infrastructure’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Solaris Energy Infrastructure is more favorable than Weatherford International.

Profitability

This table compares Weatherford International and Solaris Energy Infrastructure’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Weatherford International	N/A	N/A	N/A
Solaris Energy Infrastructure	7.19%	13.26%	4.80%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Weatherford International and Solaris Energy Infrastructure”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Weatherford International	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Solaris Energy Infrastructure	$762.18 million	5.42	$30.17 million	$0.85	63.42

Solaris Energy Infrastructure has higher revenue and earnings than Weatherford International.

Summary

Solaris Energy Infrastructure beats Weatherford International on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Weatherford International

Weatherford International plc, an oilfield service company, provides equipment and services for the drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention of oil and natural gas wells worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Western Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere. It offers artificial lift systems, including reciprocating rod, progressing cavity pumping, gas, hydraulic, plunger, and hybrid lift systems, as well as related automation and control systems; pressure pumping and reservoir stimulation services, such as acidizing, fracturing and fluid systems, cementing, and coiled-tubing intervention; and drill stem test tools, surface well testing, and multiphase flow measurement services. The company also provides safety, downhole reservoir monitoring, flow control, and multistage fracturing systems, as well as sand-control technologies, and production and isolation packers; liner hangers to suspend a casing string in high-temperature and high-pressure wells; cementing products, including plugs, float and stage equipment, and torque-and-drag reduction technology for zonal isolation; and pre-job planning and installation services. In addition, it offers directional drilling services, and logging and measurement services while drilling; services related to rotary-steerable systems, high-temperature and high-pressure sensors, drilling reamers, and circulation subs; rotating control devices and advanced automated control systems, as well as closed-loop drilling, air drilling, managed-pressure drilling, and underbalanced drilling services; open hole and cased-hole logging services; and intervention and remediation services. Further, the company provides tubular handling, management, and connection services; drilling tools and rental equipment services; and re-entry, fishing, wellbore cleaning, and well abandonment services, as well as multilateral well systems. Weatherford International plc was incorporated in 1972 and is based in Houston, Texas.

About Solaris Energy Infrastructure

Solaris Energy Infrastructure, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the manufacture of patented mobile proppant management systems that unload, store, and deliver proppant to oil and natural gas well sites. Its products include Mobile Proppant and Mobile Chemical Management Systems, and Inventory Management Software. The firm’s services include field, last mile management, and transloading services. The company was founded by William A. Zartler in 2014 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.