DEC vs. EGY, SOC, VTS, BRY, REPX, TXO, TTI, GPRK, SBOW, and SD
Should you be buying Diversified Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diversified Energy include VAALCO Energy (EGY), Sable Offshore (SOC), Vitesse Energy (VTS), Berry (BRY), Riley Exploration Permian (REPX), TXO Partners (TXO), TETRA Technologies (TTI), GeoPark (GPRK), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), and SandRidge Energy (SD). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
VAALCO Energy (NYSE:EGY) and Diversified Energy (NYSE:DEC) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Diversified Energy has higher revenue and earnings than VAALCO Energy.
VAALCO Energy has a net margin of 13.26% compared to VAALCO Energy's net margin of 0.00%. Diversified Energy's return on equity of 14.34% beat VAALCO Energy's return on equity.
VAALCO Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Diversified Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. VAALCO Energy pays out 44.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. VAALCO Energy has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. VAALCO Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
VAALCO Energy received 254 more outperform votes than Diversified Energy when rated by MarketBeat users.
50.3% of VAALCO Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.5% of Diversified Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of VAALCO Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, VAALCO Energy had 10 more articles in the media than Diversified Energy. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for VAALCO Energy and 1 mentions for Diversified Energy. Diversified Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat VAALCO Energy's score of 0.33 indicating that VAALCO Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
VAALCO Energy beats Diversified Energy on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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