BOR vs. GKP, PANR, PTAL, EGY, ENQ, GENL, HUR, I3E, TLW, and CNE
Should you be buying Borders & Southern Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Borders & Southern Petroleum include Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), Pantheon Resources (PANR), PetroTal (PTAL), VAALCO Energy (EGY), EnQuest (ENQ), Genel Energy (GENL), Hurricane Energy (HUR), i3 Energy (I3E), Tullow Oil (TLW), and Capricorn Energy (CNE). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Borders & Southern Petroleum vs. Its Competitors
Borders & Southern Petroleum (LON:BOR) and Gulf Keystone Petroleum (LON:GKP) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
Borders & Southern Petroleum has a beta of -0.41, indicating that its share price is 141% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gulf Keystone Petroleum has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
3.3% of Borders & Southern Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.4% of Gulf Keystone Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. 21.3% of Borders & Southern Petroleum shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.0% of Gulf Keystone Petroleum shares are held by company 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.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum has a consensus target price of GBX 200, suggesting a potential upside of 17.92%. Given Gulf Keystone Petroleum's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Gulf Keystone Petroleum is more favorable than Borders & Southern Petroleum.
Borders & Southern Petroleum has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Gulf Keystone Petroleum's net margin of -7.11%. Borders & Southern Petroleum's return on equity of -0.37% beat Gulf Keystone Petroleum's return on equity.
Borders & Southern Petroleum has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gulf Keystone Petroleum. Gulf Keystone Petroleum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Borders & Southern Petroleum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Gulf Keystone Petroleum had 1 more articles in the media than Borders & Southern Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Gulf Keystone Petroleum and 2 mentions for Borders & Southern Petroleum. Borders & Southern Petroleum's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Gulf Keystone Petroleum's score of 0.50 indicating that Borders & Southern Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Borders & Southern Petroleum beats Gulf Keystone Petroleum on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:BOR) was last updated on 9/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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