SOUC vs. STAR, SOU, INDI, ANGS, SYN, CEG, TRIN, BOIL, PMG, and BLOE
Should you be buying Southern Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern Energy include Star Energy Group (STAR), Sound Energy (SOU), Indus Gas (INDI), Angus Energy (ANGS), Synergia Energy (SYN), Challenger Energy Group (CEG), Trinity Exploration & Production (TRIN), Baron Oil (BOIL), The Parkmead Group (PMG), and Block Energy (BLOE). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Star Energy Group (LON:STAR) and Southern Energy (LON:SOUC) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
Star Energy Group has a beta of -0.09, indicating that its share price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southern Energy has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Southern Energy had 4 more articles in the media than Star Energy Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Southern Energy and 1 mentions for Star Energy Group. Star Energy Group's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat Southern Energy's score of 0.10 indicating that Southern Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Star Energy Group received 339 more outperform votes than Southern Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Southern Energy an outperform vote while only 73.92% of users gave Star Energy Group an outperform vote.
40.4% of Star Energy Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.7% of Southern Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Star Energy Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of Southern Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Star Energy Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 66, indicating a potential upside of ∞. Southern Energy has a consensus target price of GBX 20, indicating a potential upside of 86.05%. Given Southern Energy's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Star Energy Group is more favorable than Southern Energy.
Star Energy Group has a net margin of -9.08% compared to Star Energy Group's net margin of -27.38%. Star Energy Group's return on equity of -8.76% beat Southern Energy's return on equity.
Star Energy Group has higher revenue and earnings than Southern Energy. Southern Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Star Energy Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Star Energy Group beats Southern Energy on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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