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Tullow Oil (TLW) Competitors

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GBX 10.16 +0.34 (+3.46%)
As of 10/24/2025 11:56 AM Eastern

TLW vs. GKP, PANR, PTAL, EGY, ENQ, GENL, HUR, I3E, KIST, and CNE

Should you be buying Tullow Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tullow Oil include Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), Pantheon Resources (PANR), PetroTal (PTAL), VAALCO Energy (EGY), EnQuest (ENQ), Genel Energy (GENL), Hurricane Energy (HUR), i3 Energy (I3E), Kistos (KIST), and Capricorn Energy (CNE). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.

Tullow Oil vs. Its Competitors

Tullow Oil (LON:TLW) and Gulf Keystone Petroleum (LON:GKP) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk and dividends.

41.5% of Tullow Oil shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.4% of Gulf Keystone Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Tullow Oil shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.0% of Gulf Keystone Petroleum shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Tullow Oil has higher revenue and earnings than Gulf Keystone Petroleum. Gulf Keystone Petroleum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tullow Oil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Tullow Oil£1.28B0.12£19.84M-£14.00-0.73
Gulf Keystone Petroleum£163.17M2.37-£9.57M-£0.38-470.00

Tullow Oil has a net margin of 1.01% compared to Gulf Keystone Petroleum's net margin of -7.11%. Gulf Keystone Petroleum's return on equity of -1.52% beat Tullow Oil's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Tullow Oil1.01% -6.32% 5.94%
Gulf Keystone Petroleum -7.11%-1.52%-0.98%

Tullow Oil has a beta of 2.08, meaning that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gulf Keystone Petroleum has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Tullow Oil currently has a consensus price target of GBX 15.33, suggesting a potential upside of 50.92%. Gulf Keystone Petroleum has a consensus price target of GBX 257, suggesting a potential upside of 43.90%. Given Tullow Oil's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Tullow Oil is more favorable than Gulf Keystone Petroleum.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Tullow Oil
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Gulf Keystone Petroleum
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Tullow Oil had 35 more articles in the media than Gulf Keystone Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Tullow Oil and 1 mentions for Gulf Keystone Petroleum. Tullow Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Gulf Keystone Petroleum's score of 0.04 indicating that Tullow Oil is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Tullow Oil
3 Very Positive mention(s)
10 Positive mention(s)
20 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Gulf Keystone Petroleum
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Tullow Oil beats Gulf Keystone Petroleum on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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TLW vs. The Competition

MetricTullow OilOil & Gas E&P IndustryEnergy SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£148.85M£1.45B£7.97B£2.66B
Dividend Yield23.09%8.04%10.82%5.35%
P/E Ratio-0.739.3116.39400.09
Price / Sales0.124,797.651,529.7898,316.30
Price / Cash3.2186.0436.5927.90
Price / Book-0.991.814.477.26
Net Income£19.84M£82.88M£4.26B£5.88B
7 Day Performance0.98%2.24%2.59%1.06%
1 Month Performance-6.62%1.06%0.43%1.71%
1 Year Performance-59.62%21.05%17.34%111.51%

Tullow Oil Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TLW
Tullow Oil
2.3895 of 5 stars
GBX 10.16
+3.5%
GBX 15.33
+50.9%
-58.6%£148.85M£1.28B-0.73399Trending News
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GKP
Gulf Keystone Petroleum
3.4469 of 5 stars
GBX 177
-0.6%
GBX 257
+45.2%
+39.5%£383.75M£163.17M-465.79471Gap Down
PANR
Pantheon Resources
2.2587 of 5 stars
GBX 26.67
+2.2%
GBX 66
+147.4%
+74.1%£356.04MN/A-26.4115Positive News
PTAL
PetroTal
N/AGBX 32.55
-1.4%
N/A-4.0%£297.59M£349.46M4.0789Positive News
EGY
VAALCO Energy
2.6446 of 5 stars
GBX 281
-3.1%
GBX 607.50
+116.2%
N/A£292.97M£458.56M7.59189Positive News
Gap Up
ENQ
EnQuest
3.8195 of 5 stars
GBX 9.92
+0.6%
GBX 24
+142.0%
+3.0%£184.38M£1.14B-1.65681
GENL
Genel Energy
3.1529 of 5 stars
GBX 63.47
+1.2%
GBX 85
+33.9%
-10.4%£174.76M£72.90M-3.22118Gap Down
HUR
Hurricane Energy
N/AN/AN/AN/A£155.02M£275.50M194.755,660News Coverage
High Trading Volume
I3E
i3 Energy
N/AN/AN/AN/A£152.88M£131.15M1,274.0061
KIST
Kistos
1.8355 of 5 stars
GBX 157
-0.3%
GBX 230
+46.5%
+65.7%£130.10M£197.15M-2.7533News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
CNE
Capricorn Energy
3.104 of 5 stars
GBX 189.50
+0.3%
GBX 369.33
+94.9%
-1.6%£129.97M£126.70M63.17172News Coverage
Gap Up

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This page (LON:TLW) was last updated on 10/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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