BRN vs. MVO, BATL, PED, PRT, PVL, INDO, USEG, MXC, HUSA, and GBR
Should you be buying Barnwell Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barnwell Industries include MV Oil Trust (MVO), Battalion Oil (BATL), PEDEVCO (PED), PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), Indonesia Energy (INDO), U.S. Energy (USEG), Mexco Energy (MXC), Houston American Energy (HUSA), and New Concept Energy (GBR). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
MV Oil Trust (NYSE:MVO) and Barnwell Industries (NYSE:BRN) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and dividends.
3.5% of MV Oil Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.7% of Barnwell Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 17.6% of Barnwell Industries shares are held 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.
MV Oil Trust has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barnwell Industries has a beta of 0.11, suggesting that its stock price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MV Oil Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Barnwell Industries. Barnwell Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MV Oil Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MV Oil Trust received 164 more outperform votes than Barnwell Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.97% of users gave MV Oil Trust an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Barnwell Industries an outperform vote.
MV Oil Trust has a net margin of 94.48% compared to MV Oil Trust's net margin of -13.29%. Barnwell Industries' return on equity of 0.00% beat MV Oil Trust's return on equity.
MV Oil Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.1%. Barnwell Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. MV Oil Trust pays out 86.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Barnwell Industries pays out -3.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Barnwell Industries had 1 more articles in the media than MV Oil Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Barnwell Industries and 1 mentions for MV Oil Trust. Barnwell Industries' average media sentiment score of 2.00 beat MV Oil Trust's score of 0.34 indicating that MV Oil Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
MV Oil Trust beats Barnwell Industries on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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