VTS vs. DEC, TXO, SOC, GRNT, REPX, GPRK, BRY, TTI, SD, and SBOW
Should you be buying Vitesse Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vitesse Energy include Diversified Energy (DEC), TXO Partners (TXO), Sable Offshore (SOC), Granite Ridge Resources (GRNT), Riley Exploration Permian (REPX), GeoPark (GPRK), Berry (BRY), TETRA Technologies (TTI), SandRidge Energy (SD), and SilverBow Resources (SBOW). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Diversified Energy (NYSE:DEC) and Vitesse Energy (NYSE:VTS) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
In the previous week, Diversified Energy had 4 more articles in the media than Vitesse Energy. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Diversified Energy and 1 mentions for Vitesse Energy. Diversified Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat Vitesse Energy's score of 1.14 indicating that Vitesse Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vitesse Energy has a net margin of 10.92% compared to Vitesse Energy's net margin of 0.00%. Diversified Energy's return on equity of 7.87% beat Vitesse Energy's return on equity.
Diversified Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Vitesse Energy.
Diversified Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Vitesse Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Vitesse Energy pays out 238.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Vitesse Energy has a consensus target price of $28.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.63%. Given Diversified Energy's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Vitesse Energy is more favorable than Diversified Energy.
26.5% of Diversified Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.6% of Vitesse Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.8% of Vitesse Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Vitesse Energy received 7 more outperform votes than Diversified Energy when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Vitesse Energy beats Diversified Energy on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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