IPO vs. JOY, BNE, GXE, RBY, TXP, PRQ, CNE, KEI, YGR, and TNZ
Should you be buying InPlay Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of InPlay Oil include Journey Energy (JOY), Bonterra Energy (BNE), Gear Energy (GXE), Rubellite Energy (RBY), Touchstone Exploration (TXP), Petrus Resources (PRQ), Canacol Energy (CNE), Kolibri Global Energy (KEI), Yangarra Resources (YGR), and Tenaz Energy (TNZ). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Journey Energy (TSE:JOY) and InPlay Oil (TSE:IPO) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
InPlay Oil received 21 more outperform votes than Journey Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.40% of users gave InPlay Oil an outperform vote while only 56.30% of users gave Journey Energy an outperform vote.
InPlay Oil has a net margin of 20.85% compared to InPlay Oil's net margin of 8.46%. Journey Energy's return on equity of 11.53% beat InPlay Oil's return on equity.
InPlay Oil has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Journey Energy. InPlay Oil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Journey Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, InPlay Oil had 2 more articles in the media than Journey Energy. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for InPlay Oil and 9 mentions for Journey Energy. InPlay Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Journey Energy's score of -0.32 indicating that Journey Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
15.8% of Journey Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.7% of InPlay Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.3% of Journey Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.8% of InPlay Oil shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Journey Energy has a beta of 3.63, meaning that its share price is 263% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InPlay Oil has a beta of 2.51, meaning that its share price is 151% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Journey Energy presently has a consensus price target of C$6.63, suggesting a potential upside of 69.22%. InPlay Oil has a consensus price target of C$4.38, suggesting a potential upside of 76.41%. Given Journey Energy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe InPlay Oil is more favorable than Journey Energy.
Journey Energy pays an annual dividend of C$0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. InPlay Oil pays an annual dividend of C$0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Journey Energy pays out 125.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. InPlay Oil pays out 50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
InPlay Oil beats Journey Energy on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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