TTE vs. WG, YCA, ITH, ENOG, KOS, SEPL, HBR, TGA, SQZ, and AT
Should you be buying TotalEnergies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TotalEnergies include John Wood Group (WG), Yellow Cake (YCA), Ithaca Energy (ITH), Energean (ENOG), Kosmos Energy (KOS), Seplat Energy (SEPL), Harbour Energy (HBR), Thungela Resources (TGA), Serica Energy (SQZ), and Ashtead Technology (AT). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
John Wood Group (LON:WG) and TotalEnergies (LON:TTE) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
John Wood Group has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TotalEnergies has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
105.6% of John Wood Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.2% of TotalEnergies shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of John Wood Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.5% of TotalEnergies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
John Wood Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 187.50, indicating a potential downside of 6.53%. Given TotalEnergies' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe John Wood Group is more favorable than TotalEnergies.
TotalEnergies has a net margin of 10.14% compared to TotalEnergies' net margin of -1.88%. John Wood Group's return on equity of 18.10% beat TotalEnergies' return on equity.
John Wood Group received 552 more outperform votes than TotalEnergies when rated by MarketBeat users.
John Wood Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.0%. TotalEnergies pays an annual dividend of GBX 316 per share and has a dividend yield of 468.8%. John Wood Group pays out -18,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TotalEnergies pays out 3,825.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
TotalEnergies has higher revenue and earnings than John Wood Group. John Wood Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TotalEnergies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, John Wood Group had 3 more articles in the media than TotalEnergies. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for John Wood Group and 0 mentions for TotalEnergies. John Wood Group's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat TotalEnergies' score of -0.15 indicating that TotalEnergies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
TotalEnergies beats John Wood Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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