WTI vs. SD, BRY, PHX, EGY, SBOW, GFR, GTE, AMPY, PNRG, and GPRK
Should you be buying W&T Offshore stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of W&T Offshore include SandRidge Energy (SD), Berry (BRY), PHX Minerals (PHX), VAALCO Energy (EGY), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), Greenfire Resources (GFR), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Amplify Energy (AMPY), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), and GeoPark (GPRK). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI) and SandRidge Energy (NYSE:SD) 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 valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
SandRidge Energy has a net margin of 35.52% compared to W&T Offshore's net margin of -4.04%. SandRidge Energy's return on equity of 11.41% beat W&T Offshore's return on equity.
SandRidge Energy received 11 more outperform votes than W&T Offshore when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.92% of users gave W&T Offshore an outperform vote while only 51.16% of users gave SandRidge Energy an outperform vote.
W&T Offshore has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SandRidge Energy has a beta of 2.16, suggesting that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.
W&T Offshore pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. SandRidge Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. W&T Offshore pays out -26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SandRidge Energy pays out 33.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
42.9% of W&T Offshore shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.8% of SandRidge Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.5% of W&T Offshore shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of SandRidge Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
SandRidge Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than W&T Offshore. W&T Offshore is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SandRidge Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
W&T Offshore presently has a consensus target price of $7.80, indicating a potential upside of 234.76%. Given W&T Offshore's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe W&T Offshore is more favorable than SandRidge Energy.
In the previous week, W&T Offshore had 10 more articles in the media than SandRidge Energy. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for W&T Offshore and 3 mentions for SandRidge Energy. SandRidge Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat W&T Offshore's score of -0.19 indicating that SandRidge Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
SandRidge Energy beats W&T Offshore on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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