KOS vs. HBR, ENOG, ITH, SEPL, SQZ, EGY, TTE, YCA, WG, and TGA
Should you be buying Kosmos Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kosmos Energy include Harbour Energy (HBR), Energean (ENOG), Ithaca Energy (ITH), Seplat Energy (SEPL), Serica Energy (SQZ), VAALCO Energy (EGY), TotalEnergies (TTE), Yellow Cake (YCA), John Wood Group (WG), and Thungela Resources (TGA). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Harbour Energy (LON:HBR) and Kosmos Energy (LON:KOS) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
Harbour Energy presently has a consensus price target of GBX 330, indicating a potential upside of 17.10%. Kosmos Energy has a consensus price target of GBX 610, indicating a potential upside of 28.69%. Given Harbour Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kosmos Energy is more favorable than Harbour Energy.
Kosmos Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Harbour Energy. Harbour Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kosmos Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kosmos Energy has a net margin of 12.55% compared to Kosmos Energy's net margin of 0.85%. Harbour Energy's return on equity of 23.46% beat Kosmos Energy's return on equity.
Kosmos Energy received 50 more outperform votes than Harbour Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.11% of users gave Kosmos Energy an outperform vote while only 71.74% of users gave Harbour Energy an outperform vote.
Harbour Energy has a beta of -0.3, indicating that its share price is 130% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kosmos Energy has a beta of 2.39, indicating that its share price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500.
33.0% of Harbour Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.7% of Kosmos Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.7% of Harbour Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Kosmos Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Kosmos Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Harbour Energy. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Kosmos Energy and 1 mentions for Harbour Energy. Kosmos Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Harbour Energy's score of 0.21 indicating that Harbour Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Harbour Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Kosmos Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Harbour Energy pays out -2,381.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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. Harbour Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Kosmos Energy beats Harbour Energy on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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