GKP vs. GENL, GTE, PANR, ENQ, JSE, CNE, I3E, SAVE, KIST, and TXP
Should you be buying Gulf Keystone Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gulf Keystone Petroleum include Genel Energy (GENL), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Pantheon Resources (PANR), EnQuest (ENQ), Jadestone Energy (JSE), Capricorn Energy (CNE), i3 Energy (I3E), Savannah Energy (SAVE), Kistos (KIST), and Touchstone Exploration (TXP). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum (LON:GKP) and Genel Energy (LON:GENL) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
32.0% of Gulf Keystone Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.1% of Genel Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 15.1% of Gulf Keystone Petroleum shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 68.0% of Genel Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum presently has a consensus price target of GBX 211.33, indicating a potential upside of 91.60%. Genel Energy has a consensus price target of GBX 105, indicating a potential upside of 25.75%. Given Gulf Keystone Petroleum's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Gulf Keystone Petroleum is more favorable than Genel Energy.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum has higher revenue and earnings than Genel Energy. Gulf Keystone Petroleum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genel Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genel Energy has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum pays an annual dividend of GBX 54 per share and has a dividend yield of 49.0%. Genel Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.0%. Gulf Keystone Petroleum pays out -135,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Genel Energy pays out -3,000.0% 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.
Genel Energy received 91 more outperform votes than Gulf Keystone Petroleum when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.94% of users gave Genel Energy an outperform vote while only 65.09% of users gave Gulf Keystone Petroleum an outperform vote.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum has a net margin of -9.31% compared to Genel Energy's net margin of -72.29%. Gulf Keystone Petroleum's return on equity of -2.05% beat Genel Energy's return on equity.
In the previous week, Gulf Keystone Petroleum had 4 more articles in the media than Genel Energy. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Gulf Keystone Petroleum and 2 mentions for Genel Energy. Genel Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Gulf Keystone Petroleum's score of 0.00 indicating that Genel Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Gulf Keystone Petroleum beats Genel Energy on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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