ENQ vs. DEC, EGY, SQZ, TLW, PTAL, SAVE, GKP, GENL, GTE, and PANR
Should you be buying EnQuest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EnQuest include Diversified Energy (DEC), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Serica Energy (SQZ), Tullow Oil (TLW), PetroTal (PTAL), Savannah Energy (SAVE), Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), Genel Energy (GENL), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), and Pantheon Resources (PANR). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
EnQuest (LON:ENQ) and Diversified Energy (LON:DEC) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
Diversified Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than EnQuest. EnQuest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diversified Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Diversified Energy has a net margin of 93.96% compared to EnQuest's net margin of -2.07%. Diversified Energy's return on equity of 329.81% beat EnQuest's return on equity.
EnQuest currently has a consensus price target of GBX 26, indicating a potential upside of 100.31%. Diversified Energy has a consensus price target of GBX 175, indicating a potential downside of 85.98%. Given EnQuest's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe EnQuest is more favorable than Diversified Energy.
EnQuest received 633 more outperform votes than Diversified Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Diversified Energy an outperform vote while only 60.17% of users gave EnQuest an outperform vote.
47.6% of EnQuest shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.8% of Diversified Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 17.3% of EnQuest shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of Diversified Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, EnQuest's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Diversified Energy'saverage media sentiment score.
EnQuest has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diversified Energy has a beta of 0.12, indicating that its stock price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Diversified Energy beats EnQuest on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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