PBR.A vs. EC, GBR, PBR, VOC, WDS, CSAN, HUSA, MXC, BRN, and USEG
Should you be buying PETROLEO BRASIL/S stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PETROLEO BRASIL/S include Ecopetrol (EC), New Concept Energy (GBR), Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras (PBR), VOC Energy Trust (VOC), Woodside Energy Group (WDS), 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 PETROLEO BRASIL/S (NYSE:PBR.A) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation and risk.
Ecopetrol pays an annual dividend of $2.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.9%. PETROLEO BRASIL/S pays an annual dividend of $0.83 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Ecopetrol pays out 89.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PETROLEO BRASIL/S pays out 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Ecopetrol has higher revenue and earnings than PETROLEO BRASIL/S. PETROLEO BRASIL/S is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ecopetrol, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PETROLEO BRASIL/S has a net margin of 22.46% compared to PETROLEO BRASIL/S's net margin of 14.77%. Ecopetrol's return on equity of 31.07% beat PETROLEO BRASIL/S's return on equity.
Ecopetrol received 137 more outperform votes than PETROLEO BRASIL/S when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.79% of users gave PETROLEO BRASIL/S an outperform vote while only 53.30% of users gave Ecopetrol an outperform vote.
Ecopetrol has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PETROLEO BRASIL/S has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ecopetrol had 7 more articles in the media than PETROLEO BRASIL/S. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ecopetrol and 1 mentions for PETROLEO BRASIL/S. PETROLEO BRASIL/S's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Ecopetrol's score of 0.00 indicating that Ecopetrol is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ecopetrol currently has a consensus price target of $11.27, suggesting a potential downside of 5.08%. Given PETROLEO BRASIL/S's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ecopetrol is more favorable than PETROLEO BRASIL/S.
Summary
Ecopetrol beats PETROLEO BRASIL/S on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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