Tetra Technologies (NYSE:TTI – Get Free Report) and KLX Energy Services (NASDAQ:KLXE – Get Free Report) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
70.2% of Tetra Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.7% of KLX Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.7% of Tetra Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of KLX Energy Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Tetra Technologies and KLX Energy Services’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Tetra Technologies | 18.95% | 14.10% | 5.78% |
| KLX Energy Services | -10.59% | -981.82% | -13.81% |
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Tetra Technologies | $599.11 million | 1.31 | $108.28 million | $0.86 | 6.87 |
| KLX Energy Services | $709.30 million | 0.05 | -$53.00 million | ($4.07) | -0.50 |
Tetra Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than KLX Energy Services. KLX Energy Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tetra Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk & Volatility
Tetra Technologies has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KLX Energy Services has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings for Tetra Technologies and KLX Energy Services, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Tetra Technologies | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3.25 |
| KLX Energy Services | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Tetra Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $6.17, suggesting a potential upside of 4.34%. Given Tetra Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Tetra Technologies is more favorable than KLX Energy Services.
Summary
Tetra Technologies beats KLX Energy Services on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Tetra Technologies
TETRA Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy services and solutions company. It operates through two segments, Completion Fluids & Products Division and Water & Flowback Services. The Completion Fluids & Products segment manufactures and markets clear brine fluids, additives, and associated products and services to the oil and gas industry for use in well drilling, completion, and workover operations in the United States, as well as in Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. This segment also markets liquid and dry calcium chloride products; and TETRA PureFlow ultra-pure zinc bromide to battery technology companies. The Water & Flowback Services segment provides water management services for onshore oil and gas operators. This segment also offers frac flowback, production well testing, and other associated services in oil and gas producing regions in the United States, as well as in various basins in Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. TETRA Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.
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.
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