PTAL vs. TLW, DEC, EGY, PANR, ENQ, GKP, GENL, GTE, JSE, and CNE
Should you be buying PetroTal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PetroTal include Tullow Oil (TLW), Diversified Energy (DEC), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Pantheon Resources (PANR), EnQuest (ENQ), Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), Genel Energy (GENL), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Jadestone Energy (JSE), and Capricorn Energy (CNE). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
PetroTal (LON:PTAL) and Tullow Oil (LON:TLW) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
30.0% of PetroTal shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.7% of Tullow Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.0% of PetroTal shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.5% of Tullow Oil shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Tullow Oil has a consensus price target of GBX 64.50, indicating a potential upside of 74.80%. Given Tullow Oil's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Tullow Oil is more favorable than PetroTal.
PetroTal pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. Tullow Oil pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%. PetroTal pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Tullow Oil pays out -6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, PetroTal had 1 more articles in the media than Tullow Oil. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for PetroTal and 1 mentions for Tullow Oil. Tullow Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat PetroTal's score of -0.43 indicating that Tullow Oil is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tullow Oil received 1174 more outperform votes than PetroTal when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 87.80% of users gave PetroTal an outperform vote while only 69.78% of users gave Tullow Oil an outperform vote.
PetroTal has a beta of 1.99, meaning that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tullow Oil has a beta of 2.11, meaning that its share price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PetroTal has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tullow Oil. Tullow Oil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PetroTal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PetroTal has a net margin of 38.60% compared to Tullow Oil's net margin of -6.71%. PetroTal's return on equity of 25.60% beat Tullow Oil's return on equity.
Summary
PetroTal beats Tullow Oil on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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