DCC vs. KOS, HBR, ENOG, TTE, YCA, NWF, ITH, WG, SEPL, and TGA
Should you be buying DCC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DCC include Kosmos Energy (KOS), Harbour Energy (HBR), Energean (ENOG), TotalEnergies (TTE), Yellow Cake (YCA), NWF Group (NWF), Ithaca Energy (ITH), John Wood Group (WG), Seplat Energy (SEPL), and Thungela Resources (TGA). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
DCC (LON:DCC) and Kosmos Energy (LON:KOS) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
DCC received 394 more outperform votes than Kosmos Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.11% of users gave Kosmos Energy an outperform vote while only 71.84% of users gave DCC an outperform vote.
79.5% of DCC shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.7% of Kosmos Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of DCC shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Kosmos Energy shares are owned by company 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.
Kosmos Energy has a net margin of 12.55% compared to DCC's net margin of 1.57%. Kosmos Energy's return on equity of 23.46% beat DCC's return on equity.
DCC has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kosmos Energy has a beta of 2.39, indicating that its stock price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DCC presently has a consensus target price of GBX 5,881, indicating a potential upside of 6.93%. Kosmos Energy has a consensus target price of GBX 610, indicating a potential upside of 28.69%. Given Kosmos Energy's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kosmos Energy is more favorable than DCC.
In the previous week, Kosmos Energy had 2 more articles in the media than DCC. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Kosmos Energy and 3 mentions for DCC. Kosmos Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat DCC's score of -0.04 indicating that Kosmos Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DCC pays an annual dividend of GBX 190 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Kosmos Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. DCC pays out 5,688.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kosmos Energy pays out 4,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
DCC has higher revenue and earnings than Kosmos Energy. Kosmos Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DCC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Kosmos Energy beats DCC on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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