ITH vs. SEPL, SQZ, EGY, DEC, TLW, PTAL, ENQ, PANR, ENOG, and KOS
Should you be buying Ithaca Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ithaca Energy include Seplat Energy (SEPL), Serica Energy (SQZ), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Diversified Energy (DEC), Tullow Oil (TLW), PetroTal (PTAL), EnQuest (ENQ), Pantheon Resources (PANR), Energean (ENOG), and Kosmos Energy (KOS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Seplat Energy (LON:SEPL) and Ithaca Energy (LON:ITH) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Seplat Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Ithaca Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.8%. Seplat Energy pays out 33,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ithaca Energy pays out 12,352.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ithaca Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ithaca Energy has a net margin of 9.30% compared to Ithaca Energy's net margin of 2.86%. Seplat Energy's return on equity of 8.80% beat Ithaca Energy's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ithaca Energy had 4 more articles in the media than Seplat Energy. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Ithaca Energy and 1 mentions for Seplat Energy. Seplat Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Ithaca Energy's score of 0.44 indicating that Ithaca Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ithaca Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Seplat Energy. Ithaca Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seplat Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Seplat Energy received 72 more outperform votes than Ithaca Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.36% of users gave Seplat Energy an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Ithaca Energy an outperform vote.
17.0% of Seplat Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.1% of Ithaca Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 35.2% of Seplat Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 88.9% of Ithaca Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ithaca Energy has a consensus price target of GBX 165, suggesting a potential upside of 40.07%. Given Seplat Energy's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ithaca Energy is more favorable than Seplat Energy.
Summary
Ithaca Energy beats Seplat Energy on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Ithaca Energy News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for ITH and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ITH and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Ithaca Energy Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
