SEPL vs. ITH, SQZ, EGY, DEC, TLW, PTAL, SAVE, PANR, ENQ, and GKP
Should you be buying Seplat Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Seplat Energy include Ithaca Energy (ITH), Serica Energy (SQZ), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Diversified Energy (DEC), Tullow Oil (TLW), PetroTal (PTAL), Savannah Energy (SAVE), Pantheon Resources (PANR), EnQuest (ENQ), and Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP). 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 earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Ithaca Energy has a net margin of 9.30% compared to Seplat Energy's net margin of 7.83%. Ithaca Energy's return on equity of 8.80% beat Seplat Energy's return on equity.
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.
In the previous week, Seplat Energy had 8 more articles in the media than Ithaca Energy. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Seplat Energy and 1 mentions for Ithaca Energy. Seplat Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Ithaca Energy's score of 0.00 indicating that Seplat Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ithaca Energy has a consensus target price of GBX 165, indicating a potential upside of 42.24%. Given Ithaca Energy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ithaca Energy is more favorable than Seplat Energy.
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.
17.1% of Seplat Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.2% of Ithaca Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 35.2% of Seplat Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 88.9% of Ithaca Energy shares are owned by company 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.
Seplat Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Ithaca Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.1%. Seplat Energy pays out 8,181.8% 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.
Summary
Seplat Energy beats Ithaca Energy on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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