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Challenger Energy Group (CEG) Competitors

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CEG vs. UTL, BHI, GMP, CTP, ET, PVR, CLP, EUSP, TRP, and PEG

Should you be buying Challenger Energy Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Challenger Energy Group include UIL (UTL), BMO UK High Income Trust (BHI), Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust (GMP), Castleton Technology (CTP), Establishment Investment Trust (ET), Providence Resources (PVR), Clear Leisure (CLP), EU supply (EUSP), Tower Resources (TRP), and Petards Group (PEG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.

Challenger Energy Group vs.

UIL (LON:UTL) and Challenger Energy Group (LON:CEG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and risk.

UIL received 87 more outperform votes than Challenger Energy Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.99% of users gave UIL an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Challenger Energy Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
UILOutperform Votes
87
76.99%
Underperform Votes
26
23.01%
Challenger Energy GroupOutperform Votes
No Votes
Underperform Votes
8
100.00%

25.3% of Challenger Energy Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 78.0% of UIL shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.7% of Challenger Energy Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

UIL has a net margin of 156.15% compared to Challenger Energy Group's net margin of -496.73%. UIL's return on equity of -16.21% beat Challenger Energy Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
UIL156.15% -16.21% -3.94%
Challenger Energy Group -496.73%-17.87%-6.18%

Challenger Energy Group has higher revenue and earnings than UIL. UIL is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Challenger Energy Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
UIL-£16.90M-6.11-£26.39M-£29.84-3.91
Challenger Energy Group£5.19M4.87-£25.80M-£6.69-1.23

In the previous week, UIL had 4 more articles in the media than Challenger Energy Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for UIL and 0 mentions for Challenger Energy Group. UIL's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Challenger Energy Group's score of 0.00 indicating that UIL is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
UIL Positive
Challenger Energy Group Neutral

UIL has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Challenger Energy Group has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

UIL beats Challenger Energy Group on 8 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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CEG vs. The Competition

MetricChallenger Energy GroupOil & Gas E&P IndustryEnergy SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£25.32M£1.35B£7.25B£2.66B
Dividend YieldN/A8.34%10.96%5.05%
P/E Ratio-1.23217.1553.87129.21
Price / Sales4.87108,553.6824,453.07221,406.02
Price / Cash0.8891.6135.5028.02
Price / Book0.181.553.503.79
Net Income-£25.80M£81.99M£4.30B£5.88B
7 Day Performance-7.58%0.14%-1.22%0.63%
1 Month Performance-7.17%5.38%6.12%22.11%
1 Year Performance5,347.02%25.65%178.08%120.87%

Challenger Energy Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CEG
Challenger Energy Group
N/AGBX 8.23
-0.3%
N/A+5,420.0%£25.32M£5.19M-1.2313,400Gap Down
UTL
UIL
N/AGBX 116.80
-1.8%
N/A+11.7%£103.30M£-16,899,017.20-3.91520News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
BHI
BMO UK High Income Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£99.66M£3.93M40.952,980Gap Up
GMP
Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£82.67M£540.33M27.51N/A
CTP
Castleton Technology
N/AN/AN/AN/A£77.42M£25.08M20.60169
ET
Establishment Investment Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£43.40M£-2,924,000.00-10.9612,600Gap Up
PVR
Providence Resources
N/AN/AN/AN/A£34.84MN/A-3.192Gap Down
CLP
Clear Leisure
N/AN/AN/AN/A£24.23M£39,000.00-13.504Gap Up
EUSP
EU supply
N/AN/AN/AN/A£15.47M£5.14M30.087News Coverage
Gap Up
TRP
Tower Resources
N/AGBX 0.03
-3.7%
N/A+33.3%£4.67MN/A-2.657,480Gap Up
PEG
Petards Group
N/AGBX 7.40
+3.9%
N/A-6.9%£4.58M£10.27M-2.5612,500Gap Up

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