IGAS vs. BOR, PXEN, DELT, TRIN, PMG, BOIL, ANGS, SOU, TLOU, and CEG
Should you be buying IGas Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IGas Energy include Borders & Southern Petroleum (BOR), Prospex Energy (PXEN), Deltic Energy (DELT), Trinity Exploration & Production (TRIN), The Parkmead Group (PMG), Baron Oil (BOIL), Angus Energy (ANGS), Sound Energy (SOU), Tlou Energy (TLOU), and Challenger Energy Group (CEG). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
IGas Energy (LON:IGAS) and Borders & Southern Petroleum (LON:BOR) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability and media sentiment.
IGas Energy has a beta of -0.04, suggesting that its share price is 104% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Borders & Southern Petroleum has a beta of -0.42, suggesting that its share price is 142% less volatile than the S&P 500.
55.7% of IGas Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.4% of Borders & Southern Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of IGas Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 57.8% of Borders & Southern Petroleum shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
IGas Energy presently has a consensus price target of GBX 70, indicating a potential upside of 508.70%. Given IGas Energy's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe IGas Energy is more favorable than Borders & Southern Petroleum.
IGas Energy received 63 more outperform votes than Borders & Southern Petroleum when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.53% of users gave IGas Energy an outperform vote while only 71.99% of users gave Borders & Southern Petroleum an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Borders & Southern Petroleum had 4 more articles in the media than IGas Energy. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Borders & Southern Petroleum and 0 mentions for IGas Energy. IGas Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Borders & Southern Petroleum's score of -0.27 indicating that IGas Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Borders & Southern Petroleum has a net margin of 0.00% compared to IGas Energy's net margin of -19.91%. Borders & Southern Petroleum's return on equity of -0.36% beat IGas Energy's return on equity.
Borders & Southern Petroleum has lower revenue, but higher earnings than IGas Energy.
Summary
IGas Energy beats Borders & Southern Petroleum on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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