ZEN vs. EGY, TLW, CNE, GENL, HUR, I3E, GTE, JSE, KIST, and AET
Should you be buying Zenith Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zenith Energy include VAALCO Energy (EGY), Tullow Oil (TLW), Capricorn Energy (CNE), Genel Energy (GENL), Hurricane Energy (HUR), i3 Energy (I3E), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Jadestone Energy (JSE), Kistos (KIST), and Afentra (AET). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Zenith Energy vs.
Zenith Energy (LON:ZEN) and VAALCO Energy (LON:EGY) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Zenith Energy has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VAALCO Energy has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
7.0% of Zenith Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.4% of VAALCO Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 17.7% of Zenith Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of VAALCO Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
VAALCO Energy has a net margin of 17.82% compared to Zenith Energy's net margin of -3,414.81%. VAALCO Energy's return on equity of 18.19% beat Zenith Energy's return on equity.
Zenith Energy received 123 more outperform votes than VAALCO Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave VAALCO Energy an outperform vote while only 65.07% of users gave Zenith Energy an outperform vote.
VAALCO Energy has a consensus price target of GBX 625, indicating a potential upside of 123.21%. Given VAALCO Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe VAALCO Energy is more favorable than Zenith Energy.
VAALCO Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Zenith Energy. Zenith Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VAALCO Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Zenith Energy had 1 more articles in the media than VAALCO Energy. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Zenith Energy and 1 mentions for VAALCO Energy. VAALCO Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Zenith Energy's score of 0.07 indicating that VAALCO Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
VAALCO Energy beats Zenith Energy on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ZEN) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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