IGAS vs. STAR, TRIN, CEG, SOU, PXEN, PMG, SOUC, BOIL, SYN, and BLOE
Should you be buying IGas Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IGas Energy include Star Energy Group (STAR), Trinity Exploration & Production (TRIN), Challenger Energy Group (CEG), Sound Energy (SOU), Prospex Energy (PXEN), The Parkmead Group (PMG), Southern Energy (SOUC), Baron Oil (BOIL), Synergia Energy (SYN), and Block Energy (BLOE). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Star Energy Group (LON:STAR) and IGas Energy (LON:IGAS) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
IGas Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Star Energy Group. IGas Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Star Energy Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Star Energy Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 66, indicating a potential upside of 446.58%. IGas Energy has a consensus target price of GBX 70, indicating a potential upside of 507.64%. Given Star Energy Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe IGas Energy is more favorable than Star Energy Group.
Star Energy Group has a beta of -0.13, suggesting that its share price is 113% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IGas Energy has a beta of -0.04, suggesting that its share price is 104% less volatile than the S&P 500.
IGas Energy has a net margin of -19.91% compared to IGas Energy's net margin of -58.41%. Star Energy Group's return on equity of -18.56% beat IGas Energy's return on equity.
40.5% of Star Energy Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.7% of IGas Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Star Energy Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of IGas Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Star Energy Group had 7 more articles in the media than IGas Energy. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Star Energy Group and 0 mentions for IGas Energy. IGas Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Star Energy Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Star Energy Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Star Energy Group received 5 more outperform votes than IGas Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.92% of users gave Star Energy Group an outperform vote while only 72.53% of users gave IGas Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
IGas Energy beats Star Energy Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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