TLW vs. DEC, PTAL, EGY, PANR, ENQ, GKP, SQZ, GENL, GTE, and CNE
Should you be buying Tullow Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tullow Oil include Diversified Energy (DEC), PetroTal (PTAL), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Pantheon Resources (PANR), EnQuest (ENQ), Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), Serica Energy (SQZ), Genel Energy (GENL), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), and Capricorn Energy (CNE). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Tullow Oil (LON:TLW) and Diversified Energy (LON:DEC) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Diversified Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tullow Oil. Tullow Oil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diversified Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Diversified Energy has a net margin of 93.96% compared to Tullow Oil's net margin of -6.71%. Diversified Energy's return on equity of 329.81% beat Tullow Oil's return on equity.
Tullow Oil presently has a consensus price target of GBX 64.50, suggesting a potential upside of 80.07%. Diversified Energy has a consensus price target of GBX 175, suggesting a potential downside of 83.61%. Given Tullow Oil's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Tullow Oil is more favorable than Diversified Energy.
55.7% of Tullow Oil shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of Diversified Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 23.5% of Tullow Oil shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Diversified Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tullow Oil pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.2%. Diversified Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 274 per share and has a dividend yield of 25.7%. Tullow Oil pays out -6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diversified Energy pays out 2,169.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Tullow Oil has a beta of 2.11, suggesting that its stock price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diversified Energy has a beta of 0.16, suggesting that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Diversified Energy had 2 more articles in the media than Tullow Oil. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Diversified Energy and 3 mentions for Tullow Oil. Tullow Oil's average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat Diversified Energy's score of 0.44 indicating that Tullow Oil is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tullow Oil received 1201 more outperform votes than Diversified Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Diversified Energy an outperform vote while only 69.78% of users gave Tullow Oil an outperform vote.
Summary
Diversified Energy beats Tullow Oil on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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