DWSN vs. PVL, BPT, PRT, INDO, NCSM, VSTE, FTCI, SDPI, LTBR, and CETY
Should you be buying Dawson Geophysical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dawson Geophysical include Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (BPT), PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT), Indonesia Energy (INDO), NCS Multistage (NCSM), Vast Renewables (VSTE), FTC Solar (FTCI), Superior Drilling Products (SDPI), Lightbridge (LTBR), and Clean Energy Technologies (CETY). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Dawson Geophysical (NASDAQ:DWSN) and Permianville Royalty Trust (NYSE:PVL) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
7.9% of Dawson Geophysical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.8% of Permianville Royalty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.2% of Dawson Geophysical 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.
In the previous week, Dawson Geophysical's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Permianville Royalty Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Dawson Geophysical is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Permianville Royalty Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Dawson Geophysical. Dawson Geophysical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Permianville Royalty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dawson Geophysical has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Permianville Royalty Trust has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Permianville Royalty Trust has a net margin of 31.22% compared to Dawson Geophysical's net margin of -12.54%. Permianville Royalty Trust's return on equity of 24.89% beat Dawson Geophysical's return on equity.
Dawson Geophysical received 6 more outperform votes than Permianville Royalty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.84% of users gave Dawson Geophysical an outperform vote while only 60.26% of users gave Permianville Royalty Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Permianville Royalty Trust beats Dawson Geophysical on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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