VIA vs. CRT, AE, SLNG, PED, TYGO, NRT, FTCI, SND, CETY, and NEOV
Should you be buying Via Renewables stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Via Renewables include Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (CRT), Adams Resources & Energy (AE), Stabilis Solutions (SLNG), PEDEVCO (PED), Tigo Energy (TYGO), North European Oil Royalty Trust (NRT), FTC Solar (FTCI), Smart Sand (SND), Clean Energy Technologies (CETY), and NeoVolta (NEOV). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (NYSE:CRT) and Via Renewables (NASDAQ:VIA) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
9.7% of Cross Timbers Royalty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.4% of Via Renewables shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.4% of Cross Timbers Royalty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 66.2% of Via Renewables shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust received 156 more outperform votes than Via Renewables when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.29% of users gave Cross Timbers Royalty Trust an outperform vote while only 7.41% of users gave Via Renewables an outperform vote.
Via Renewables has higher revenue and earnings than Cross Timbers Royalty Trust. Cross Timbers Royalty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Via Renewables, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Via Renewables had 8 more articles in the media than Cross Timbers Royalty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Via Renewables and 1 mentions for Cross Timbers Royalty Trust. Via Renewables' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Cross Timbers Royalty Trust's score of 0.24 indicating that Cross Timbers Royalty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust has a net margin of 93.40% compared to Cross Timbers Royalty Trust's net margin of 3.44%. Via Renewables' return on equity of 418.94% beat Cross Timbers Royalty Trust's return on equity.
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Via Renewables has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust beats Via Renewables on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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