BRN vs. PED, VOC, BATL, PVL, PRT, USEG, MXC, INDO, HUSA, and PRTG
Should you be buying Barnwell Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barnwell Industries include PEDEVCO (PED), VOC Energy Trust (VOC), Battalion Oil (BATL), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT), U.S. Energy (USEG), Mexco Energy (MXC), Indonesia Energy (INDO), Houston American Energy (HUSA), and Portage Biotech (PRTG). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Barnwell Industries (NYSE:BRN) and PEDEVCO (NYSE:PED) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
PEDEVCO has higher revenue and earnings than Barnwell Industries. Barnwell Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PEDEVCO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Barnwell Industries has a beta of 0.15, suggesting that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PEDEVCO has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
40.7% of Barnwell Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.3% of PEDEVCO shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.6% of Barnwell Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 71.1% of PEDEVCO shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, PEDEVCO had 2 more articles in the media than Barnwell Industries. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for PEDEVCO and 1 mentions for Barnwell Industries. Barnwell Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled PEDEVCO'saverage media sentiment score.
PEDEVCO has a net margin of 3.99% compared to Barnwell Industries' net margin of -13.29%. PEDEVCO's return on equity of 1.31% beat Barnwell Industries' return on equity.
PEDEVCO has a consensus target price of $1.75, indicating a potential upside of 73.27%. Given PEDEVCO's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PEDEVCO is more favorable than Barnwell Industries.
PEDEVCO received 1 more outperform votes than Barnwell Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 2.56% of users gave PEDEVCO an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Barnwell Industries an outperform vote.
Summary
PEDEVCO beats Barnwell Industries on 15 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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