ZN vs. DWSN, HUSA, ISUN, LITM, ROCG, OPTT, MARPS, HLGN, HGAS, and ALCE
Should you be buying Zion Oil & Gas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zion Oil & Gas include Dawson Geophysical (DWSN), Houston American Energy (HUSA), iSun (ISUN), Snow Lake Resources (LITM), Roth CH Acquisition IV (ROCG), Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT), Marine Petroleum Trust (MARPS), Heliogen (HLGN), Global Gas (HGAS), and Alternus Clean Energy (ALCE). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Dawson Geophysical (NASDAQ:DWSN) and Zion Oil & Gas (NASDAQ:ZN) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and earnings.
Dawson Geophysical received 19 more outperform votes than Zion Oil & Gas when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.70% of users gave Zion Oil & Gas an outperform vote while only 60.84% of users gave Dawson Geophysical an outperform vote.
Zion Oil & Gas has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Zion Oil & Gas' net margin of -14.69%. Dawson Geophysical's return on equity of -40.66% beat Zion Oil & Gas' return on equity.
Zion Oil & Gas has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Dawson Geophysical.
Dawson Geophysical has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zion Oil & Gas has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Dawson Geophysical had 3 more articles in the media than Zion Oil & Gas. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Dawson Geophysical and 0 mentions for Zion Oil & Gas. Zion Oil & Gas' average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Dawson Geophysical's score of 0.00 indicating that Dawson Geophysical is being referred to more favorably in the media.
7.9% of Dawson Geophysical shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.0% of Zion Oil & Gas shares are held by institutional investors. 7.2% of Dawson Geophysical shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Zion Oil & Gas shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Dawson Geophysical beats Zion Oil & Gas on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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