BSM vs. CHRD, COP, CVE, DVN, EOG, MGY, MTDR, MUR, OVV, and VET
Should you be buying Black Stone Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Black Stone Minerals include Chord Energy (CHRD), ConocoPhillips (COP), Cenovus Energy (CVE), Devon Energy (DVN), EOG Resources (EOG), Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY), Matador Resources (MTDR), Murphy Oil (MUR), Ovintiv (OVV), and Vermilion Energy (VET). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Black Stone Minerals vs. Its Competitors
Black Stone Minerals (NYSE:BSM) and Chord Energy (NASDAQ:CHRD) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
Black Stone Minerals presently has a consensus target price of $13.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.31%. Chord Energy has a consensus target price of $138.38, suggesting a potential upside of 47.73%. Given Chord Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Chord Energy is more favorable than Black Stone Minerals.
Black Stone Minerals pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. Chord Energy pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Black Stone Minerals pays out 103.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Chord Energy pays out 132.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Chord Energy has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Black Stone Minerals is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
14.5% of Black Stone Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of Chord Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 17.8% of Black Stone Minerals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Chord Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Chord Energy had 7 more articles in the media than Black Stone Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Chord Energy and 3 mentions for Black Stone Minerals. Black Stone Minerals' average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Chord Energy's score of 0.75 indicating that Black Stone Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Black Stone Minerals has a net margin of 61.21% compared to Chord Energy's net margin of 5.02%. Black Stone Minerals' return on equity of 39.67% beat Chord Energy's return on equity.
Black Stone Minerals has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chord Energy has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chord Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Black Stone Minerals. Black Stone Minerals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chord Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Chord Energy beats Black Stone Minerals on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BSM) was last updated on 10/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff