BOIL vs. CEG, PXEN, SOUC, PMG, SOU, TRIN, STAR, ANGS, IGAS, and BOR
Should you be buying Baron Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Baron Oil include Challenger Energy Group (CEG), Prospex Energy (PXEN), Southern Energy (SOUC), The Parkmead Group (PMG), Sound Energy (SOU), Trinity Exploration & Production (TRIN), Star Energy Group (STAR), Angus Energy (ANGS), IGas Energy (IGAS), and Borders & Southern Petroleum (BOR). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Challenger Energy Group (LON:CEG) and Baron Oil (LON:BOIL) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Baron Oil received 122 more outperform votes than Challenger Energy Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.39% of users gave Baron Oil an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Challenger Energy Group an outperform vote.
22.6% of Challenger Energy Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.6% of Baron Oil shares are held by institutional investors. 45.9% of Challenger Energy Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Baron Oil shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Baron Oil has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Baron Oil's net margin of -62.05%. Baron Oil's return on equity of -2.07% beat Challenger Energy Group's return on equity.
Challenger Energy Group has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Baron Oil has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Challenger Energy Group and Challenger Energy Group both had 1 articles in the media. Baron Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Challenger Energy Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Challenger Energy Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Baron Oil has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Challenger Energy Group.
Summary
Challenger Energy Group beats Baron Oil on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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