KEL vs. CJ, OBE, BIR, FEC, SGY, AAV, CR, SDE, HWX, and VLE
Should you be buying Kelt Exploration stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kelt Exploration include Cardinal Energy (CJ), Obsidian Energy (OBE), Birchcliff Energy (BIR), Frontera Energy (FEC), Surge Energy (SGY), Advantage Energy (AAV), Crew Energy (CR), Spartan Delta (SDE), Headwater Exploration (HWX), and Valeura Energy (VLE). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Kelt Exploration (TSE:KEL) and Cardinal Energy (TSE:CJ) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Cardinal Energy had 5 more articles in the media than Kelt Exploration. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Cardinal Energy and 0 mentions for Kelt Exploration. Cardinal Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Kelt Exploration's score of 0.00 indicating that Cardinal Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kelt Exploration has a beta of 2.1, suggesting that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cardinal Energy has a beta of 2.96, suggesting that its stock price is 196% more volatile than the S&P 500.
33.2% of Kelt Exploration shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.3% of Cardinal Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.9% of Kelt Exploration shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% of Cardinal Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cardinal Energy has a net margin of 21.53% compared to Kelt Exploration's net margin of 19.70%. Cardinal Energy's return on equity of 11.22% beat Kelt Exploration's return on equity.
Cardinal Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Kelt Exploration. Cardinal Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kelt Exploration, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kelt Exploration presently has a consensus target price of C$8.64, indicating a potential upside of 42.62%. Cardinal Energy has a consensus target price of C$8.70, indicating a potential upside of 26.82%. Given Kelt Exploration's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Kelt Exploration is more favorable than Cardinal Energy.
Kelt Exploration received 95 more outperform votes than Cardinal Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.33% of users gave Kelt Exploration an outperform vote while only 67.15% of users gave Cardinal Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Cardinal Energy beats Kelt Exploration on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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