EGY vs. TLW, DEC, PTAL, SQZ, SAVE, ENQ, PANR, SEPL, GKP, and GENL
Should you be buying VAALCO Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VAALCO Energy include Tullow Oil (TLW), Diversified Energy (DEC), PetroTal (PTAL), Serica Energy (SQZ), Savannah Energy (SAVE), EnQuest (ENQ), Pantheon Resources (PANR), Seplat Energy (SEPL), Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), and Genel Energy (GENL). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Tullow Oil (LON:TLW) and VAALCO Energy (LON:EGY) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Tullow Oil received 1199 more outperform votes than VAALCO Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave VAALCO Energy an outperform vote while only 69.78% of users gave Tullow Oil an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Tullow Oil had 1 more articles in the media than VAALCO Energy. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Tullow Oil and 0 mentions for VAALCO Energy. VAALCO Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Tullow Oil's score of 0.00 indicating that Tullow Oil is being referred to more favorably in the media.
VAALCO Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tullow Oil. Tullow Oil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VAALCO Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tullow Oil pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.2%. VAALCO Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 19 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Tullow Oil pays out -6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. VAALCO Energy pays out 4,318.2% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Tullow Oil currently has a consensus target price of GBX 64.50, indicating a potential upside of 82.60%. VAALCO Energy has a consensus target price of GBX 720, indicating a potential upside of 30.91%. Given VAALCO Energy's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Tullow Oil is more favorable than VAALCO Energy.
64.3% of Tullow Oil shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.9% of VAALCO Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 22.1% of Tullow Oil shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of VAALCO Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Tullow Oil has a beta of 2.08, suggesting that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VAALCO Energy has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
VAALCO Energy has a net margin of 13.26% compared to VAALCO Energy's net margin of -6.71%. Tullow Oil's return on equity of 12.78% beat VAALCO Energy's return on equity.
Summary
Tullow Oil beats VAALCO Energy on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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