TXP vs. PHAR, AET, CHAR, INDI, RKH, FOG, ZPHR, KIST, CASP, and AXL
Should you be buying Touchstone Exploration stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Touchstone Exploration include Pharos Energy (PHAR), Afentra (AET), Chariot (CHAR), Indus Gas (INDI), Rockhopper Exploration (RKH), Falcon Oil & Gas (FOG), Zephyr Energy (ZPHR), Kistos (KIST), Caspian Sunrise (CASP), and Arrow Exploration (AXL). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Touchstone Exploration (LON:TXP) and Pharos Energy (LON:PHAR) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and profitability.
Touchstone Exploration has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pharos Energy. Touchstone Exploration is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pharos Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pharos Energy received 15 more outperform votes than Touchstone Exploration when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.48% of users gave Pharos Energy an outperform vote while only 43.75% of users gave Touchstone Exploration an outperform vote.
7.1% of Touchstone Exploration shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.8% of Pharos Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of Touchstone Exploration shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 52.6% of Pharos Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Touchstone Exploration presently has a consensus target price of GBX 100, indicating a potential upside of 137.95%. Given Touchstone Exploration's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Touchstone Exploration is more favorable than Pharos Energy.
Touchstone Exploration has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pharos Energy has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Touchstone Exploration had 1 more articles in the media than Pharos Energy. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Touchstone Exploration and 2 mentions for Pharos Energy. Touchstone Exploration's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Pharos Energy's score of 0.33 indicating that Touchstone Exploration is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pharos Energy has a net margin of -31.00% compared to Touchstone Exploration's net margin of -57.23%. Pharos Energy's return on equity of -16.16% beat Touchstone Exploration's return on equity.
Summary
Pharos Energy beats Touchstone Exploration on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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