TLW vs. KOS, SQZ, DEC, GKP, RKH, PANR, PTAL, 88E, EGY, and ENQ
Should you be buying Tullow Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tullow Oil include Kosmos Energy (KOS), Serica Energy (SQZ), Diversified Energy (DEC), Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), Rockhopper Exploration (RKH), Pantheon Resources (PANR), PetroTal (PTAL), 88 Energy (88E), VAALCO Energy (EGY), and EnQuest (ENQ). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Tullow Oil vs. Its Competitors
Tullow Oil (LON:TLW) and Kosmos Energy (LON:KOS) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
Tullow Oil currently has a consensus target price of GBX 20.50, suggesting a potential upside of 11.41%. Given Tullow Oil's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Tullow Oil is more favorable than Kosmos Energy.
Kosmos Energy has a net margin of 12.22% compared to Tullow Oil's net margin of 1.01%. Kosmos Energy's return on equity of 19.64% beat Tullow Oil's return on equity.
In the previous week, Tullow Oil and Tullow Oil both had 2 articles in the media. Kosmos Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Tullow Oil's score of 0.12 indicating that Kosmos Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kosmos Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Tullow Oil. Kosmos Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tullow Oil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tullow Oil pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 21.7%. Kosmos Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. Tullow Oil pays out 472.6% 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.
43.5% of Tullow Oil shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.7% of Kosmos Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 24.6% of Tullow Oil shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Kosmos Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tullow Oil has a beta of 2.08, indicating that its stock price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kosmos Energy has a beta of 2.43, indicating that its stock price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tullow Oil received 1133 more outperform votes than Kosmos Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.11% of users gave Kosmos Energy an outperform vote while only 69.76% of users gave Tullow Oil an outperform vote.
Summary
Kosmos Energy beats Tullow Oil on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:TLW) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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