BPT vs. VTNR, XOM, CVX, COP, BP, EQNR, MPC, PSX, VLO, and SU
Should you be buying BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust include Vertex Energy (VTNR), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), ConocoPhillips (COP), BP (BP), Equinor ASA (EQNR), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Phillips 66 (PSX), Valero Energy (VLO), and Suncor Energy (SU). These companies are all part of the "petroleum refining" industry.
Vertex Energy (NASDAQ:VTNR) and BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (NYSE:BPT) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
Vertex Energy currently has a consensus target price of $4.88, suggesting a potential upside of 382.67%. Given BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Vertex Energy is more favorable than BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust.
Vertex Energy received 99 more outperform votes than BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.79% of users gave Vertex Energy an outperform vote while only 63.73% of users gave BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Vertex Energy. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust and 0 mentions for Vertex Energy. Vertex Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vertex Energy has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust has a beta of 0.01, meaning that its stock price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.
43.0% of Vertex Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.7% of BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Vertex Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust has a net margin of 0.00% compared to BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust's net margin of -4.50%. Vertex Energy's return on equity of -9.99% beat BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust's return on equity.
BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Vertex Energy.
Summary
Vertex Energy beats BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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