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Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP) Competitors

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GBX 177.60 -5.40 (-2.95%)
As of 10/17/2025 12:03 PM Eastern

GKP vs. ENOG, DEC, SQZ, KOS, RKH, PANR, EGY, PTAL, ENQ, and GENL

Should you be buying Gulf Keystone Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gulf Keystone Petroleum include Energean (ENOG), Diversified Energy (DEC), Serica Energy (SQZ), Kosmos Energy (KOS), Rockhopper Exploration (RKH), Pantheon Resources (PANR), VAALCO Energy (EGY), PetroTal (PTAL), EnQuest (ENQ), and Genel Energy (GENL). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.

Gulf Keystone Petroleum vs. Its Competitors

Gulf Keystone Petroleum (LON:GKP) and Energean (LON:ENOG) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

Gulf Keystone Petroleum pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Energean pays an annual dividend of GBX 1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Gulf Keystone Petroleum pays out -5,487.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Energean pays out 107.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Gulf Keystone Petroleum currently has a consensus price target of GBX 257, indicating a potential upside of 44.71%. Energean has a consensus price target of GBX 940, indicating a potential upside of 5.56%. Given Gulf Keystone Petroleum's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Gulf Keystone Petroleum is more favorable than Energean.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Gulf Keystone Petroleum
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Energean
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

19.4% of Gulf Keystone Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.6% of Energean shares are held by institutional investors. 16.0% of Gulf Keystone Petroleum shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.4% of Energean shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Gulf Keystone Petroleum has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Energean has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Gulf Keystone Petroleum had 2 more articles in the media than Energean. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Gulf Keystone Petroleum and 1 mentions for Energean. Gulf Keystone Petroleum's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Energean's score of 0.75 indicating that Gulf Keystone Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Gulf Keystone Petroleum
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Energean
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Energean has a net margin of 10.25% compared to Gulf Keystone Petroleum's net margin of -7.11%. Energean's return on equity of 18.48% beat Gulf Keystone Petroleum's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Gulf Keystone Petroleum-7.11% -1.52% -0.98%
Energean 10.25%18.48%7.67%

Energean has higher revenue and earnings than Gulf Keystone Petroleum. Gulf Keystone Petroleum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Energean, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Gulf Keystone Petroleum£163.17M2.36-£9.57M-£0.00-46,736.84
Energean£1.25B1.31£160.37M£1.12795.09

Summary

Energean beats Gulf Keystone Petroleum on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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GKP vs. The Competition

MetricGulf Keystone PetroleumOil & Gas E&P IndustryEnergy SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£385.05M£1.43B£7.70B£2.55B
Dividend Yield13.09%8.04%10.87%5.32%
P/E Ratio-46,736.84260.1172.914,366.81
Price / Sales2.364,759.421,417.3999,410.30
Price / Cash1.8686.0436.6027.90
Price / Book0.781.764.698.11
Net Income-£9.57M£82.71M£4.28B£5.89B
7 Day Performance-8.74%-1.11%-0.24%-0.66%
1 Month Performance0.23%1.12%0.25%0.83%
1 Year Performance39.73%23.69%15.68%126.00%

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GKP
Gulf Keystone Petroleum
3.7505 of 5 stars
GBX 177.60
-3.0%
GBX 257
+44.7%
+41.4%£385.05M£163.17M-46,736.84471Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
ENOG
Energean
0.6723 of 5 stars
GBX 882
-0.7%
GBX 940
+6.6%
-2.7%£1.63B£1.25B787.50590Gap Down
High Trading Volume
DEC
Diversified Energy
N/AGBX 954.04
-2.6%
N/A+5.5%£729.66M£1.20B-358.661,603Positive News
Dividend Announcement
High Trading Volume
SQZ
Serica Energy
2.7749 of 5 stars
GBX 185.40
-1.2%
GBX 212.83
+14.8%
+21.9%£724.04M£570.52M-2,317.501,620High Trading Volume
KOS
Kosmos Energy
N/AGBX 124.50
+2.9%
N/A-63.8%£595.43M£1.49B-366.18240
RKH
Rockhopper Exploration
1.6547 of 5 stars
GBX 75.60
-3.6%
GBX 90
+19.0%
+475.2%£484.24MN/A-667.8411
PANR
Pantheon Resources
2.2386 of 5 stars
GBX 26.01
-1.3%
GBX 66
+153.7%
+58.6%£347.22MN/A-2,575.5415Gap Up
High Trading Volume
EGY
VAALCO Energy
2.07 of 5 stars
GBX 304
+3.1%
GBX 607.50
+99.8%
-37.0%£316.94M£458.56M821.62189Positive News
Gap Up
PTAL
PetroTal
N/AGBX 32.75
-0.5%
N/A-13.7%£299.41M£349.46M409.3889News Coverage
Positive News
ENQ
EnQuest
3.8469 of 5 stars
GBX 10.26
-2.3%
GBX 24
+133.9%
-4.4%£190.74M£1.14B-171.00681High Trading Volume
GENL
Genel Energy
N/AGBX 65.10
-3.8%
GBX 80
+22.9%
-19.8%£179.24M£72.90M-330.46118High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:GKP) was last updated on 10/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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