BRN vs. USEG, MXC, INDO, HUSA, PRT, PVL, BATL, MVO, NCNC, and ICD
Should you be buying Barnwell Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barnwell Industries include U.S. Energy (USEG), Mexco Energy (MXC), Indonesia Energy (INDO), Houston American Energy (HUSA), PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), Battalion Oil (BATL), MV Oil Trust (MVO), noco-noco (NCNC), and Independence Contract Drilling (ICD). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
U.S. Energy (NASDAQ:USEG) and Barnwell Industries (NYSE:BRN) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability and institutional ownership.
U.S. Energy has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barnwell Industries has a beta of 0.15, indicating that its share price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Barnwell Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
U.S. Energy received 193 more outperform votes than Barnwell Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.78% of users gave U.S. Energy an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Barnwell Industries an outperform vote.
Barnwell Industries has a net margin of -11.35% compared to Barnwell Industries' net margin of -100.13%. U.S. Energy's return on equity of -14.70% beat Barnwell Industries' return on equity.
3.0% of U.S. Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.7% of Barnwell Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 57.6% of U.S. Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.6% of Barnwell Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, U.S. Energy had 1 more articles in the media than Barnwell Industries. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for U.S. Energy and 5 mentions for Barnwell Industries. U.S. Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Barnwell Industries' score of 0.43 indicating that Barnwell Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Barnwell Industries beats U.S. Energy on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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