VOC vs. EC, GBR, PBR, WDS, SHEL, TTE, CNQ, EOG, PXD, and OXY
Should you be buying VOC Energy Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VOC Energy Trust include Ecopetrol (EC), New Concept Energy (GBR), Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras (PBR), Woodside Energy Group (WDS), Shell (SHEL), TotalEnergies (TTE), Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ), EOG Resources (EOG), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), and Occidental Petroleum (OXY). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
VOC Energy Trust (NYSE:VOC) and Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Ecopetrol has higher revenue and earnings than VOC Energy Trust. Ecopetrol is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VOC Energy Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ecopetrol received 168 more outperform votes than VOC Energy Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.20% of users gave Ecopetrol an outperform vote while only 51.57% of users gave VOC Energy Trust an outperform vote.
VOC Energy Trust has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ecopetrol has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ecopetrol had 3 more articles in the media than VOC Energy Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ecopetrol and 0 mentions for VOC Energy Trust. Ecopetrol's average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat VOC Energy Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Ecopetrol is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
VOC Energy Trust has a net margin of 92.37% compared to Ecopetrol's net margin of 14.35%. VOC Energy Trust's return on equity of 107.07% beat Ecopetrol's return on equity.
Ecopetrol has a consensus target price of $11.27, indicating a potential downside of 6.03%. Given Ecopetrol's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ecopetrol is more favorable than VOC Energy Trust.
VOC Energy Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.6%. Ecopetrol pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.3%. VOC Energy Trust pays out 83.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ecopetrol pays out 95.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Ecopetrol beats VOC Energy Trust on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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