BATL vs. PED, PVL, PRT, EPSN, PHX, MVO, INDO, USEG, BRN, and MXC
Should you be buying Battalion Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Battalion Oil include PEDEVCO (PED), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT), Epsilon Energy (EPSN), PHX Minerals (PHX), MV Oil Trust (MVO), Indonesia Energy (INDO), U.S. Energy (USEG), Barnwell Industries (BRN), and Mexco Energy (MXC). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
PEDEVCO (NYSE:PED) and Battalion Oil (NYSE:BATL) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and community ranking.
Battalion Oil has a consensus price target of $18.60, indicating a potential upside of 264.35%. Given PEDEVCO's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Battalion Oil is more favorable than PEDEVCO.
Battalion Oil has higher revenue and earnings than PEDEVCO. Battalion Oil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PEDEVCO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PEDEVCO has a net margin of 10.97% compared to PEDEVCO's net margin of -17.33%. Battalion Oil's return on equity of 3.56% beat PEDEVCO's return on equity.
Battalion Oil received 1 more outperform votes than PEDEVCO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 16.67% of users gave Battalion Oil an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave PEDEVCO an outperform vote.
PEDEVCO has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Battalion Oil has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
3.0% of PEDEVCO shares are owned by institutional investors. 71.1% of PEDEVCO shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.5% of Battalion Oil shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, PEDEVCO had 2 more articles in the media than Battalion Oil. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for PEDEVCO and 0 mentions for Battalion Oil. Battalion Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled PEDEVCO'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
PEDEVCO beats Battalion Oil on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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