BRY vs. SBOW, EGY, SD, WTI, PHX, QEP, ESTE, VIST, SM, and COP
Should you be buying Berry stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Berry include SilverBow Resources (SBOW), VAALCO Energy (EGY), SandRidge Energy (SD), W&T Offshore (WTI), PHX Minerals (PHX), QEP Resources (QEP), Earthstone Energy (ESTE), Vista Energy (VIST), SM Energy (SM), and ConocoPhillips (COP). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Berry (NASDAQ:BRY) and SilverBow Resources (NYSE:SBOW) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and profitability.
SilverBow Resources has a net margin of 24.41% compared to Berry's net margin of 0.41%. SilverBow Resources' return on equity of 16.48% beat Berry's return on equity.
Berry presently has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.96%. SilverBow Resources has a consensus target price of $45.33, suggesting a potential upside of 20.15%. Given SilverBow Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SilverBow Resources is more favorable than Berry.
94.9% of Berry shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of SilverBow Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Berry shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of SilverBow Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Berry has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SilverBow Resources has a beta of 2.58, indicating that its share price is 158% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Berry had 1 more articles in the media than SilverBow Resources. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Berry and 2 mentions for SilverBow Resources. Berry's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat SilverBow Resources' score of 1.04 indicating that Berry is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SilverBow Resources has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Berry. SilverBow Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Berry, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Berry received 5 more outperform votes than SilverBow Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.82% of users gave SilverBow Resources an outperform vote while only 55.94% of users gave Berry an outperform vote.
Summary
SilverBow Resources beats Berry on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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