BOIL vs. SOUC, PMG, PXEN, SOU, BOR, STAR, IGAS, ANGS, TRIN, and CEG
Should you be buying Baron Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Baron Oil include Southern Energy (SOUC), The Parkmead Group (PMG), Prospex Energy (PXEN), Sound Energy (SOU), Borders & Southern Petroleum (BOR), Star Energy Group (STAR), IGas Energy (IGAS), Angus Energy (ANGS), Trinity Exploration & Production (TRIN), and Challenger Energy Group (CEG). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Southern Energy (LON:SOUC) and Baron Oil (LON:BOIL) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Southern Energy has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Baron Oil has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Baron Oil has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Southern Energy.
Baron Oil has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Baron Oil's net margin of -27.38%. Baron Oil's return on equity of -8.76% beat Southern Energy's return on equity.
Southern Energy presently has a consensus target price of GBX 20, indicating a potential upside of 95.12%. Given Baron Oil's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Southern Energy is more favorable than Baron Oil.
Baron Oil received 118 more outperform votes than Southern Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Southern Energy an outperform vote while only 74.39% of users gave Baron Oil an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Baron Oil had 1 more articles in the media than Southern Energy. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Baron Oil and 2 mentions for Southern Energy. Baron Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Southern Energy's score of 0.02 indicating that Southern Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
6.7% of Southern Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.6% of Baron Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.0% of Southern Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Baron Oil shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Southern Energy beats Baron Oil on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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