EC vs. GBR, PBR, VOC, WDS, BAK, CSAN, HUSA, MXC, BRN, and USEG
Should you be buying Ecopetrol stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ecopetrol include New Concept Energy (GBR), Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras (PBR), VOC Energy Trust (VOC), Woodside Energy Group (WDS), Braskem (BAK), Cosan (CSAN), Houston American Energy (HUSA), Mexco Energy (MXC), Barnwell Industries (BRN), and U.S. Energy (USEG). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) and New Concept Energy (NYSE:GBR) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Ecopetrol presently has a consensus target price of $11.27, suggesting a potential downside of 4.11%. Given Ecopetrol's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Ecopetrol is more favorable than New Concept Energy.
Ecopetrol has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Concept Energy has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ecopetrol had 15 more articles in the media than New Concept Energy. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Ecopetrol and 3 mentions for New Concept Energy. New Concept Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Ecopetrol's score of 0.13 indicating that New Concept Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ecopetrol has a net margin of 14.77% compared to New Concept Energy's net margin of -13.82%. Ecopetrol's return on equity of 10.84% beat New Concept Energy's return on equity.
Ecopetrol received 299 more outperform votes than New Concept Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.30% of users gave Ecopetrol an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave New Concept Energy an outperform vote.
Ecopetrol has higher revenue and earnings than New Concept Energy. New Concept Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ecopetrol, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ecopetrol beats New Concept Energy on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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