KIST vs. I3E, AET, ZPHR, PHAR, CNE, TXP, CHAR, RKH, CASP, and JSE
Should you be buying Kistos stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kistos include i3 Energy (I3E), Afentra (AET), Zephyr Energy (ZPHR), Pharos Energy (PHAR), Capricorn Energy (CNE), Touchstone Exploration (TXP), Chariot (CHAR), Rockhopper Exploration (RKH), Caspian Sunrise (CASP), and Jadestone Energy (JSE). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Kistos (LON:KIST) and i3 Energy (LON:I3E) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.
i3 Energy has a net margin of 10.35% compared to Kistos' net margin of -3.53%. i3 Energy's return on equity of 9.24% beat Kistos' return on equity.
36.7% of Kistos shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.3% of i3 Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.0% of Kistos shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of i3 Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kistos presently has a consensus target price of GBX 465, indicating a potential upside of 216.33%. Given Kistos' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Kistos is more favorable than i3 Energy.
In the previous week, Kistos had 2 more articles in the media than i3 Energy. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Kistos and 2 mentions for i3 Energy. i3 Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Kistos' score of -0.22 indicating that i3 Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
i3 Energy received 49 more outperform votes than Kistos when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Kistos an outperform vote while only 75.90% of users gave i3 Energy an outperform vote.
i3 Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kistos. Kistos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than i3 Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kistos has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, i3 Energy has a beta of 0.19, suggesting that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
i3 Energy beats Kistos on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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