USEG vs. BRN, MXC, INDO, HUSA, PVL, PRT, PED, BATL, MVO, and EPSN
Should you be buying U.S. Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Energy include Barnwell Industries (BRN), Mexco Energy (MXC), Indonesia Energy (INDO), Houston American Energy (HUSA), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT), PEDEVCO (PED), Battalion Oil (BATL), MV Oil Trust (MVO), and Epsilon Energy (EPSN). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Barnwell Industries (NYSE:BRN) and U.S. Energy (NASDAQ:USEG) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings and community ranking.
Barnwell Industries has a net margin of -11.35% compared to Barnwell Industries' net margin of -138.09%. U.S. Energy's return on equity of -14.70% beat Barnwell Industries' return on equity.
In the previous week, U.S. Energy had 12 more articles in the media than Barnwell Industries. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for U.S. Energy and 6 mentions for Barnwell Industries. Barnwell Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat U.S. Energy's score of -0.05 indicating that U.S. Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
U.S. Energy received 193 more outperform votes than Barnwell Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.46% of users gave U.S. Energy an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Barnwell Industries an outperform vote.
40.7% of Barnwell Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.0% of U.S. Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 17.6% of Barnwell Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 70.9% of U.S. Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Barnwell Industries has a beta of 0.15, suggesting that its share price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Energy has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Barnwell Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than U.S. Energy. Barnwell Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than U.S. Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
U.S. Energy beats Barnwell Industries on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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