USEG vs. EPSN, EPM, TUSK, AMPY, NCSM, MVO, PED, VOC, PVL, and PRT
Should you be buying U.S. Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Energy include Epsilon Energy (EPSN), Evolution Petroleum (EPM), Mammoth Energy Services (TUSK), Amplify Energy (AMPY), NCS Multistage (NCSM), MV Oil Trust (MVO), PEDEVCO (PED), VOC Energy Trust (VOC), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), and PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT). These companies are all part of the "petroleum and natural gas" industry.
U.S. Energy vs.
U.S. Energy (NASDAQ:USEG) and Epsilon Energy (NASDAQ:EPSN) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and profitability.
U.S. Energy presently has a consensus target price of $3.50, suggesting a potential upside of 186.89%. Epsilon Energy has a consensus target price of $7.70, suggesting a potential upside of 8.60%. Given U.S. Energy's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe U.S. Energy is more favorable than Epsilon Energy.
Epsilon Energy has higher revenue and earnings than U.S. Energy. U.S. Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Epsilon Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, U.S. Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Epsilon Energy. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for U.S. Energy and 3 mentions for Epsilon Energy. Epsilon Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat U.S. Energy's score of -0.40 indicating that Epsilon Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
U.S. Energy received 179 more outperform votes than Epsilon Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.33% of users gave Epsilon Energy an outperform vote while only 50.77% of users gave U.S. Energy an outperform vote.
3.0% of U.S. Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.3% of Epsilon Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 70.9% of U.S. Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Epsilon Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
U.S. Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Epsilon Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. U.S. Energy pays out -12.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Epsilon Energy pays out 119.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. U.S. Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
U.S. Energy has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Epsilon Energy has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Epsilon Energy has a net margin of 16.97% compared to U.S. Energy's net margin of -141.51%. Epsilon Energy's return on equity of 5.31% beat U.S. Energy's return on equity.
Summary
Epsilon Energy beats U.S. Energy on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:USEG) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff