IPO vs. OBE, FEC, SDE, SGY, CR, KEC, VLE, SEI, LGN, and GTE
Should you be buying InPlay Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of InPlay Oil include Obsidian Energy (OBE), Frontera Energy (FEC), Spartan Delta (SDE), Surge Energy (SGY), Crew Energy (CR), Kiwetinohk Energy (KEC), Valeura Energy (VLE), Sintana Energy (SEI), Logan Energy (LGN), and Gran Tierra Energy (GTE). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Obsidian Energy (TSE:OBE) and InPlay Oil (TSE:IPO) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Obsidian Energy pays an annual dividend of C$0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. InPlay Oil pays an annual dividend of C$0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Obsidian Energy pays out 3.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. InPlay Oil pays out 64.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Obsidian Energy has a beta of 2.5, suggesting that its share price is 150% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InPlay Oil has a beta of 2.47, suggesting that its share price is 147% more volatile than the S&P 500.
23.7% of Obsidian Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.0% of InPlay Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Obsidian Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.8% of InPlay Oil shares are owned by 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.
InPlay Oil has a net margin of 16.44% compared to InPlay Oil's net margin of 13.72%. Obsidian Energy's return on equity of 8.76% beat InPlay Oil's return on equity.
Obsidian Energy presently has a consensus target price of C$14.19, indicating a potential upside of 36.03%. InPlay Oil has a consensus target price of C$4.17, indicating a potential upside of 80.38%. Given Obsidian Energy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe InPlay Oil is more favorable than Obsidian Energy.
Obsidian Energy received 49 more outperform votes than InPlay Oil when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.13% of users gave InPlay Oil an outperform vote while only 58.79% of users gave Obsidian Energy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Obsidian Energy had 1 more articles in the media than InPlay Oil. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Obsidian Energy and 1 mentions for InPlay Oil. InPlay Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Obsidian Energy's score of 0.55 indicating that Obsidian Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Obsidian Energy has higher revenue and earnings than InPlay Oil. InPlay Oil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Obsidian Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Obsidian Energy beats InPlay Oil on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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