KOS vs. BPT, GPOR, DEC, IMO, GTE, STR, D4H, MUR, RLD, and BRY
Should you be buying Kosmos Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kosmos Energy include Bridgepoint Group (BPT), Great Portland Estates (GPOR), Diversified Energy (DEC), IMImobile (IMO), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Stride Gaming (STR), Downing FOUR VCT (D4H), Murgitroyd Group (MUR), Richland Resources Ltd (RLD.L) (RLD), and Brady (BRY). These companies are all part of the "petroleum and natural gas" industry.
Kosmos Energy vs. Its Competitors
Bridgepoint Group (LON:BPT) and Kosmos Energy (LON:KOS) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.
Bridgepoint Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Kosmos Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. Bridgepoint Group pays out 163.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kosmos Energy pays out 39.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kosmos Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Bridgepoint Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 359.33, indicating a potential upside of 22.47%. Given Bridgepoint Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bridgepoint Group is more favorable than Kosmos Energy.
Bridgepoint Group has a beta of 1.72, meaning that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kosmos Energy has a beta of 2.43, meaning that its stock price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kosmos Energy had 2 more articles in the media than Bridgepoint Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Kosmos Energy and 0 mentions for Bridgepoint Group. Kosmos Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Bridgepoint Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Kosmos Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kosmos Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Bridgepoint Group. Kosmos Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bridgepoint Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
20.4% of Bridgepoint Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.7% of Kosmos Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.0% of Bridgepoint Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Kosmos Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bridgepoint Group has a net margin of 16.74% compared to Kosmos Energy's net margin of 12.22%. Kosmos Energy's return on equity of 19.64% beat Bridgepoint Group's return on equity.
Kosmos Energy received 71 more outperform votes than Bridgepoint Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Bridgepoint Group an outperform vote while only 74.11% of users gave Kosmos Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Kosmos Energy beats Bridgepoint Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:KOS) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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