BRY vs. EGY, SBOW, SD, WTI, DEC, VTS, SOC, TTI, REPX, and TXO
Should you be buying Berry stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Berry include VAALCO Energy (EGY), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), SandRidge Energy (SD), W&T Offshore (WTI), Diversified Energy (DEC), Vitesse Energy (VTS), Sable Offshore (SOC), TETRA Technologies (TTI), Riley Exploration Permian (REPX), and TXO Partners (TXO). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Berry (NASDAQ:BRY) and VAALCO Energy (NYSE:EGY) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk and dividends.
94.9% of Berry shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.3% of VAALCO Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Berry shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of VAALCO Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
VAALCO Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Berry. VAALCO Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Berry, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Berry pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. VAALCO Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Berry pays out 104.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. VAALCO Energy pays out 44.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Berry has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VAALCO Energy has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Berry received 6 more outperform votes than VAALCO Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.95% of users gave VAALCO Energy an outperform vote while only 55.94% of users gave Berry an outperform vote.
Berry currently has a consensus price target of $8.00, indicating a potential downside of 7.30%. Given Berry's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Berry is more favorable than VAALCO Energy.
VAALCO Energy has a net margin of 13.26% compared to Berry's net margin of 4.14%. VAALCO Energy's return on equity of 14.34% beat Berry's return on equity.
In the previous week, VAALCO Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Berry. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for VAALCO Energy and 5 mentions for Berry. Berry's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat VAALCO Energy's score of 0.63 indicating that Berry is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
VAALCO Energy beats Berry on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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