TXP vs. GXE, RBY, KEI, PRQ, CNE, IPO, JOY, YGR, BNE, and TNZ
Should you be buying Touchstone Exploration stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Touchstone Exploration include Gear Energy (GXE), Rubellite Energy (RBY), Kolibri Global Energy (KEI), Petrus Resources (PRQ), Canacol Energy (CNE), InPlay Oil (IPO), Journey Energy (JOY), Yangarra Resources (YGR), Bonterra Energy (BNE), and Tenaz Energy (TNZ). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Gear Energy (TSE:GXE) and Touchstone Exploration (TSE:TXP) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
Gear Energy received 102 more outperform votes than Touchstone Exploration when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.02% of users gave Gear Energy an outperform vote while only 67.86% of users gave Touchstone Exploration an outperform vote.
2.4% of Gear Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.1% of Touchstone Exploration shares are held by institutional investors. 7.1% of Gear Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Touchstone Exploration shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gear Energy has a net margin of 6.61% compared to Gear Energy's net margin of -57.23%. Touchstone Exploration's return on equity of 3.52% beat Gear Energy's return on equity.
Gear Energy presently has a consensus price target of C$1.00, suggesting a potential upside of 40.85%. Given Touchstone Exploration's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Gear Energy is more favorable than Touchstone Exploration.
Gear Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Touchstone Exploration. Touchstone Exploration is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gear Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gear Energy has a beta of 3.73, suggesting that its stock price is 273% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Touchstone Exploration has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Gear Energy had 8 more articles in the media than Touchstone Exploration. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Gear Energy and 2 mentions for Touchstone Exploration. Gear Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Touchstone Exploration's score of -0.13 indicating that Touchstone Exploration is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Gear Energy beats Touchstone Exploration on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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