AST vs. STAR, ORCA, GBP, SOUC, EOG, SENX, DELT, BLVN, SYN, and IOG
Should you be buying Ascent Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ascent Resources include Star Energy Group (STAR), Orcadian Energy (ORCA), Global Petroleum (GBP), Southern Energy (SOUC), Europa Oil & Gas (EOG), Serinus Energy (SENX), Deltic Energy (DELT), Bowleven (BLVN), Synergia Energy (SYN), and IOG (IOG). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Ascent Resources vs.
Star Energy Group (LON:STAR) and Ascent Resources (LON:AST) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Star Energy Group has higher revenue and earnings than Ascent Resources. Ascent Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Star Energy Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Star Energy Group has a net margin of 9.45% compared to Ascent Resources' net margin of -3,901.89%. Ascent Resources' return on equity of 432.64% beat Star Energy Group's return on equity.
40.1% of Star Energy Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.8% of Ascent Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Star Energy Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.8% of Ascent Resources shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Star Energy Group has a beta of -0.2, suggesting that its stock price is 120% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ascent Resources has a beta of 0.01, suggesting that its stock price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ascent Resources had 1 more articles in the media than Star Energy Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ascent Resources and 0 mentions for Star Energy Group. Ascent Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Star Energy Group's score of 0.55 indicating that Ascent Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Star Energy Group received 210 more outperform votes than Ascent Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.92% of users gave Star Energy Group an outperform vote while only 60.73% of users gave Ascent Resources an outperform vote.
Summary
Star Energy Group beats Ascent Resources on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:AST) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
