GKP vs. SEPL, ENOG, DEC, SQZ, KOS, RKH, EGY, PANR, PTAL, and ENQ
Should you be buying Gulf Keystone Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gulf Keystone Petroleum include Seplat Energy (SEPL), Energean (ENOG), Diversified Energy (DEC), Serica Energy (SQZ), Kosmos Energy (KOS), Rockhopper Exploration (RKH), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Pantheon Resources (PANR), PetroTal (PTAL), and EnQuest (ENQ). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum vs. Its Competitors
Gulf Keystone Petroleum (LON:GKP) and Seplat Energy (LON:SEPL) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Seplat Energy has a net margin of 8.59% compared to Gulf Keystone Petroleum's net margin of -7.11%. Seplat Energy's return on equity of 4.57% beat Gulf Keystone Petroleum's return on equity.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Seplat Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Gulf Keystone Petroleum pays out -5,487.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Seplat Energy pays out -0.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Gulf Keystone Petroleum is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum presently has a consensus price target of GBX 220, suggesting a potential upside of 4.76%. Seplat Energy has a consensus price target of GBX 437.50, suggesting a potential upside of 45.35%. Given Seplat Energy's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Seplat Energy is more favorable than Gulf Keystone Petroleum.
In the previous week, Gulf Keystone Petroleum had 3 more articles in the media than Seplat Energy. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Gulf Keystone Petroleum and 2 mentions for Seplat Energy. Seplat Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Gulf Keystone Petroleum's score of 0.30 indicating that Seplat Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Seplat Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Gulf Keystone Petroleum. Gulf Keystone Petroleum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seplat Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
19.4% of Gulf Keystone Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.1% of Seplat Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 16.0% of Gulf Keystone Petroleum shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of Seplat Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seplat Energy has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Seplat Energy beats Gulf Keystone Petroleum on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:GKP) was last updated on 10/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
