CRC vs. NOG, CPE, CEIX, HESM, WES, EGY, PHX, MTR, CHKEZ, and CHKEW
Should you be buying California Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of California Resources include Northern Oil and Gas (NOG), Callon Petroleum (CPE), CONSOL Energy (CEIX), Hess Midstream (HESM), Western Midstream Partners (WES), VAALCO Energy (EGY), PHX Minerals (PHX), Mesa Royalty Trust (MTR), Chesapeake Energy (CHKEZ), and Chesapeake Energy (CHKEW).
Northern Oil and Gas (NYSE:NOG) and California Resources (NYSE:CRC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk and earnings.
Northern Oil and Gas has a beta of 1.86, suggesting that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, California Resources has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Northern Oil and Gas presently has a consensus target price of $47.30, suggesting a potential upside of 10.08%. California Resources has a consensus target price of $63.57, suggesting a potential upside of 15.77%. Given Northern Oil and Gas' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe California Resources is more favorable than Northern Oil and Gas.
Northern Oil and Gas pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. California Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Northern Oil and Gas pays out 15.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. California Resources pays out 16.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Northern Oil and Gas has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and California Resources has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Northern Oil and Gas is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Northern Oil and Gas had 21 more articles in the media than California Resources. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Northern Oil and Gas and 7 mentions for California Resources. Northern Oil and Gas' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat California Resources' score of 0.55 indicating that California Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Northern Oil and Gas has higher earnings, but lower revenue than California Resources. Northern Oil and Gas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than California Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.8% of Northern Oil and Gas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of California Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Northern Oil and Gas shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of California Resources shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Northern Oil and Gas has a net margin of 42.61% compared to Northern Oil and Gas' net margin of 20.14%. California Resources' return on equity of 40.86% beat Northern Oil and Gas' return on equity.
California Resources received 337 more outperform votes than Northern Oil and Gas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.97% of users gave California Resources an outperform vote while only 34.18% of users gave Northern Oil and Gas an outperform vote.
Summary
Northern Oil and Gas beats California Resources on 15 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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