WTI vs. SD, BRY, SBOW, GTE, GFR, AMPY, PNRG, PROP, TTI, and EPSN
Should you be buying W&T Offshore stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of W&T Offshore include SandRidge Energy (SD), Berry (BRY), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Greenfire Resources (GFR), Amplify Energy (AMPY), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), Prairie Operating (PROP), TETRA Technologies (TTI), and Epsilon Energy (EPSN). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
SandRidge Energy (NYSE:SD) and W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking and dividends.
61.8% of SandRidge Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.9% of W&T Offshore shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of SandRidge Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.5% of W&T Offshore shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SandRidge Energy has a beta of 2.16, meaning that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, W&T Offshore has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
W&T Offshore has a consensus target price of $7.80, suggesting a potential upside of 239.13%. Given SandRidge Energy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe W&T Offshore is more favorable than SandRidge Energy.
In the previous week, W&T Offshore had 4 more articles in the media than SandRidge Energy. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for W&T Offshore and 0 mentions for SandRidge Energy. SandRidge Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat W&T Offshore's score of 0.00 indicating that W&T Offshore is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SandRidge Energy has a net margin of 35.52% compared to SandRidge Energy's net margin of -4.04%. W&T Offshore's return on equity of 11.41% beat SandRidge Energy's return on equity.
SandRidge Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than W&T Offshore. W&T Offshore is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SandRidge Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SandRidge Energy received 11 more outperform votes than W&T Offshore when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.92% of users gave W&T Offshore an outperform vote while only 51.16% of users gave SandRidge Energy an outperform vote.
SandRidge Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. W&T Offshore pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. SandRidge Energy pays out 33.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. W&T Offshore pays out -26.7% 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. SandRidge Energy has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. SandRidge Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
SandRidge Energy beats W&T Offshore on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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