VLE vs. KEC, GTE, CR, PNE, SGY, SDE, FEC, OBE, BNE, and IPO
Should you be buying Valeura Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Valeura Energy include Kiwetinohk Energy (KEC), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Crew Energy (CR), Pine Cliff Energy (PNE), Surge Energy (SGY), Spartan Delta (SDE), Frontera Energy (FEC), Obsidian Energy (OBE), Bonterra Energy (BNE), and InPlay Oil (IPO). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Valeura Energy (TSE:VLE) and Kiwetinohk Energy (TSE:KEC) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Valeura Energy presently has a consensus price target of C$10.75, suggesting a potential upside of 118.50%. Kiwetinohk Energy has a consensus price target of C$20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 56.25%. Given Valeura Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Valeura Energy is more favorable than Kiwetinohk Energy.
Valeura Energy received 143 more outperform votes than Kiwetinohk Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.96% of users gave Valeura Energy an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Kiwetinohk Energy an outperform vote.
Valeura Energy has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kiwetinohk Energy has a beta of 0.31, suggesting that its share price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Valeura Energy had 6 more articles in the media than Kiwetinohk Energy. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Valeura Energy and 2 mentions for Kiwetinohk Energy. Valeura Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Kiwetinohk Energy's score of -0.34 indicating that Valeura Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Valeura Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kiwetinohk Energy. Valeura Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kiwetinohk Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
19.3% of Valeura Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.2% of Kiwetinohk Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.6% of Valeura Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 14.7% of Kiwetinohk Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Valeura Energy has a net margin of 56.16% compared to Kiwetinohk Energy's net margin of 24.95%. Valeura Energy's return on equity of 156.29% beat Kiwetinohk Energy's return on equity.
Summary
Valeura Energy beats Kiwetinohk Energy on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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