DEC vs. TLW, EGY, PTAL, PANR, ENQ, GKP, GENL, SQZ, GTE, and CNE
Should you be buying Diversified Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diversified Energy include Tullow Oil (TLW), VAALCO Energy (EGY), PetroTal (PTAL), Pantheon Resources (PANR), EnQuest (ENQ), Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), Genel Energy (GENL), Serica Energy (SQZ), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), and Capricorn Energy (CNE). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Diversified Energy (LON:DEC) and Tullow Oil (LON:TLW) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Diversified Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tullow Oil. Tullow Oil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diversified Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Diversified Energy and Diversified Energy both had 1 articles in the media. Tullow Oil's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Diversified Energy's score of 0.77 indicating that Tullow Oil is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Diversified Energy presently has a consensus price target of GBX 175, indicating a potential downside of 83.97%. Tullow Oil has a consensus price target of GBX 64.50, indicating a potential upside of 82.00%. Given Tullow Oil's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Tullow Oil is more favorable than Diversified Energy.
Diversified Energy has a net margin of 93.96% compared to Tullow Oil's net margin of -6.71%. Diversified Energy's return on equity of 329.81% beat Tullow Oil's return on equity.
Diversified Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 274 per share and has a dividend yield of 25.1%. Tullow Oil pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.3%. Diversified Energy pays out 2,169.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Tullow Oil pays out -6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Tullow Oil received 1201 more outperform votes than Diversified Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Diversified Energy an outperform vote while only 69.78% of users gave Tullow Oil an outperform vote.
Diversified Energy has a beta of 0.16, suggesting that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tullow Oil has a beta of 2.08, suggesting that its stock price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500.
71.0% of Diversified Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of Tullow Oil shares are held by institutional investors. 7.0% of Diversified Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.1% of Tullow Oil shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Diversified Energy beats Tullow Oil on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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