EC vs. GBR, PBR, VOC, WDS, SHEL, TTE, CNQ, EOG, PXD, and OXY
Should you be buying Ecopetrol stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ecopetrol include New Concept Energy (GBR), Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras (PBR), VOC Energy Trust (VOC), Woodside Energy Group (WDS), Shell (SHEL), TotalEnergies (TTE), Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ), EOG Resources (EOG), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), and Occidental Petroleum (OXY). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) and New Concept Energy (NYSE:GBR) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, valuation and earnings.
Ecopetrol received 299 more outperform votes than New Concept Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.20% of users gave Ecopetrol an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave New Concept Energy an outperform vote.
Ecopetrol has a net margin of 14.35% compared to New Concept Energy's net margin of -25.17%. Ecopetrol's return on equity of 8.82% beat New Concept Energy's return on equity.
Ecopetrol presently has a consensus target price of $11.27, suggesting a potential downside of 6.03%. Given Ecopetrol's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ecopetrol is more favorable than New Concept Energy.
In the previous week, Ecopetrol had 2 more articles in the media than New Concept Energy. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ecopetrol and 1 mentions for New Concept Energy. New Concept Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Ecopetrol's score of 0.08 indicating that New Concept Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ecopetrol has higher revenue and earnings than New Concept Energy. New Concept Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ecopetrol, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ecopetrol has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Concept Energy has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ecopetrol beats New Concept Energy on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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