PHX vs. SD, BRY, WTI, COP, EOG, PXD, FANG, DVN, EQT, and MRO
Should you be buying PHX Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PHX Minerals include SandRidge Energy (SD), Berry (BRY), W&T Offshore (WTI), ConocoPhillips (COP), EOG Resources (EOG), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Devon Energy (DVN), EQT (EQT), and Marathon Oil (MRO). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas exploration & production" industry.
SandRidge Energy (NYSE:SD) and PHX Minerals (NYSE:PHX) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
In the previous week, PHX Minerals had 1 more articles in the media than SandRidge Energy. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for PHX Minerals and 0 mentions for SandRidge Energy. SandRidge Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat PHX Minerals' score of 0.00 indicating that PHX Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SandRidge Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. PHX Minerals pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. SandRidge Energy pays out 33.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PHX Minerals pays out 109.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SandRidge Energy has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and PHX Minerals has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. PHX Minerals is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
SandRidge Energy has a beta of 2.11, meaning that its stock price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PHX Minerals has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PHX Minerals has a consensus target price of $5.20, indicating a potential upside of 60.00%. Given SandRidge Energy's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PHX Minerals is more favorable than SandRidge Energy.
SandRidge Energy has higher revenue and earnings than PHX Minerals. SandRidge Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PHX Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SandRidge Energy received 23 more outperform votes than PHX Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.99% of users gave PHX Minerals an outperform vote while only 51.16% of users gave SandRidge Energy an outperform vote.
SandRidge Energy has a net margin of 35.52% compared to SandRidge Energy's net margin of 11.50%. PHX Minerals' return on equity of 11.41% beat SandRidge Energy's return on equity.
61.8% of SandRidge Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.2% of PHX Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of SandRidge Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of PHX Minerals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
SandRidge Energy beats PHX Minerals on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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