YCA vs. ITH, TTE, WG, SEPL, SQZ, TGA, ENOG, AT, HTG, and EGY
Should you be buying Yellow Cake stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yellow Cake include Ithaca Energy (ITH), TotalEnergies (TTE), John Wood Group (WG), Seplat Energy (SEPL), Serica Energy (SQZ), Thungela Resources (TGA), Energean (ENOG), Ashtead Technology (AT), Hunting (HTG), and VAALCO Energy (EGY). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Ithaca Energy (LON:ITH) and Yellow Cake (LON:YCA) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and media sentiment.
Yellow Cake has a net margin of 98.68% compared to Yellow Cake's net margin of 9.30%. Ithaca Energy's return on equity of 41.53% beat Yellow Cake's return on equity.
Yellow Cake has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ithaca Energy. Yellow Cake is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ithaca Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ithaca Energy presently has a consensus price target of GBX 165, suggesting a potential upside of 37.96%. Yellow Cake has a consensus price target of GBX 677, suggesting a potential upside of 7.38%. Given Yellow Cake's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Ithaca Energy is more favorable than Yellow Cake.
In the previous week, Ithaca Energy had 8 more articles in the media than Yellow Cake. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ithaca Energy and 0 mentions for Yellow Cake. Yellow Cake's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Ithaca Energy's score of 0.00 indicating that Ithaca Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
7.2% of Ithaca Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.4% of Yellow Cake shares are held by institutional investors. 88.9% of Ithaca Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Yellow Cake shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Yellow Cake received 69 more outperform votes than Ithaca Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 88.61% of users gave Yellow Cake an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Ithaca Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Yellow Cake beats Ithaca Energy on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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