USEG vs. MVO, BATL, PED, PRT, PVL, INDO, BRN, MXC, HUSA, and EC
Should you be buying U.S. Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Energy include MV Oil Trust (MVO), Battalion Oil (BATL), PEDEVCO (PED), PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), Indonesia Energy (INDO), Barnwell Industries (BRN), Mexco Energy (MXC), Houston American Energy (HUSA), and Ecopetrol (EC). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
U.S. Energy (NASDAQ:USEG) and MV Oil Trust (NYSE:MVO) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
MV Oil Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than U.S. Energy. U.S. Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MV Oil Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MV Oil Trust has a net margin of 94.48% compared to U.S. Energy's net margin of -138.09%. MV Oil Trust's return on equity of 0.00% beat U.S. Energy's return on equity.
U.S. Energy received 29 more outperform votes than MV Oil Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.97% of users gave MV Oil Trust an outperform vote while only 55.14% of users gave U.S. Energy an outperform vote.
3.0% of U.S. Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.5% of MV Oil Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 70.9% of U.S. Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, U.S. Energy had 9 more articles in the media than MV Oil Trust. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for U.S. Energy and 0 mentions for MV Oil Trust. U.S. Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat MV Oil Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that U.S. Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
U.S. Energy has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MV Oil Trust has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
MV Oil Trust beats U.S. Energy on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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