DEC vs. TXO, VTS, EGY, REPX, SOC, GPRK, BRY, TTI, GRNT, and SD
Should you be buying Diversified Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diversified Energy include TXO Partners (TXO), Vitesse Energy (VTS), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Riley Exploration Permian (REPX), Sable Offshore (SOC), GeoPark (GPRK), Berry (BRY), TETRA Technologies (TTI), Granite Ridge Resources (GRNT), and SandRidge Energy (SD). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
TXO Partners (NYSE:TXO) and Diversified Energy (NYSE:DEC) 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 profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
TXO Partners currently has a consensus price target of $26.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.70%. Given Diversified Energy's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe TXO Partners is more favorable than Diversified Energy.
Diversified Energy has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Diversified Energy's net margin of -61.27%. Diversified Energy's return on equity of 7.94% beat TXO Partners' return on equity.
TXO Partners and Diversified Energy both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
Diversified Energy has higher revenue and earnings than TXO Partners.
TXO Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.3%. Diversified Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. TXO Partners pays out -44.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TXO Partners has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. TXO Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, TXO Partners had 1 more articles in the media than Diversified Energy. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for TXO Partners and 5 mentions for Diversified Energy. TXO Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Diversified Energy's score of -0.08 indicating that Diversified Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
27.4% of TXO Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.5% of Diversified Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
TXO Partners beats Diversified Energy on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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