GKP vs. SEPL, DEC, SQZ, EGY, SAVE, PTAL, TLW, PANR, GENL, 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), Diversified Energy (DEC), Serica Energy (SQZ), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Savannah Energy (SAVE), PetroTal (PTAL), Tullow Oil (TLW), Pantheon Resources (PANR), Genel Energy (GENL), and EnQuest (ENQ). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum vs.
Seplat Energy (LON:SEPL) and Gulf Keystone Petroleum (LON:GKP) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking and earnings.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum has a consensus target price of GBX 190, indicating a potential upside of 32.87%. Given Gulf Keystone Petroleum's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Gulf Keystone Petroleum is more favorable than Seplat Energy.
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.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum received 382 more outperform votes than Seplat Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.36% of users gave Seplat Energy an outperform vote while only 65.19% of users gave Gulf Keystone Petroleum an outperform vote.
Seplat Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Gulf Keystone Petroleum pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Seplat Energy pays out 8,181.8% 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 pays out -16,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Seplat Energy has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gulf Keystone Petroleum has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
2.0% of Seplat Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.5% of Gulf Keystone Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Seplat Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Gulf Keystone Petroleum shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Seplat Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Gulf Keystone Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Seplat Energy and 0 mentions for Gulf Keystone Petroleum. Gulf Keystone Petroleum's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Seplat Energy's score of -0.28 indicating that Gulf Keystone Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 5.12% beat Gulf Keystone Petroleum's return on equity.
Summary
Seplat Energy and Gulf Keystone Petroleum tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:GKP) was last updated on 12/5/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
