GPOR vs. KOS, CRK, SBOW, SM, MTDR, SWN, RRC, TALO, BSM, and AESI
Should you be buying Gulfport Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gulfport Energy include Kosmos Energy (KOS), Comstock Resources (CRK), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), SM Energy (SM), Matador Resources (MTDR), Southwestern Energy (SWN), Range Resources (RRC), Talos Energy (TALO), Black Stone Minerals (BSM), and Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Gulfport Energy (NASDAQ:GPOR) and Kosmos Energy (NYSE:KOS) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, earnings and risk.
Gulfport Energy currently has a consensus target price of $168.13, indicating a potential upside of 4.35%. Kosmos Energy has a consensus target price of $9.63, indicating a potential upside of 65.24%. Given Kosmos Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kosmos Energy is more favorable than Gulfport Energy.
Gulfport Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Kosmos Energy. Gulfport Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kosmos Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gulfport Energy has a net margin of 82.10% compared to Kosmos Energy's net margin of 12.55%. Kosmos Energy's return on equity of 39.94% beat Gulfport Energy's return on equity.
Gulfport Energy has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kosmos Energy has a beta of 2.37, suggesting that its share price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Gulfport Energy and Gulfport Energy both had 1 articles in the media. Kosmos Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Gulfport Energy's score of 0.00 indicating that Kosmos Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
95.3% of Kosmos Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Gulfport Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Kosmos 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.
Gulfport Energy received 540 more outperform votes than Kosmos Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.74% of users gave Gulfport Energy an outperform vote while only 64.88% of users gave Kosmos Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Gulfport Energy beats Kosmos Energy on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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