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Midstates Petroleum (MPO) Competitors

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MPO vs. WTI, BRY, PHX, COP, EOG, FANG, EQT, DVN, RRC, and CRK

Should you be buying Midstates Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Midstates Petroleum include W&T Offshore (WTI), Berry (BRY), PHX Minerals (PHX), ConocoPhillips (COP), EOG Resources (EOG), Diamondback Energy (FANG), EQT (EQT), Devon Energy (DVN), Range Resources (RRC), and Comstock Resources (CRK). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas exploration & production" industry.

Midstates Petroleum vs.

W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI) and Midstates Petroleum (NYSE:MPO) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Midstates Petroleum has a net margin of 14.67% compared to W&T Offshore's net margin of -11.95%. Midstates Petroleum's return on equity of 9.99% beat W&T Offshore's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
W&T Offshore-11.95% -775.16% -4.37%
Midstates Petroleum 14.67%9.99%8.41%

42.9% of W&T Offshore shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Midstates Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.5% of W&T Offshore shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Midstates Petroleum shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

W&T Offshore has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Midstates Petroleum has a beta of 2.13, meaning that its share price is 113% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, W&T Offshore had 5 more articles in the media than Midstates Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for W&T Offshore and 0 mentions for Midstates Petroleum. W&T Offshore's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Midstates Petroleum's score of 0.00 indicating that W&T Offshore is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
W&T Offshore Positive
Midstates Petroleum Neutral

Midstates Petroleum received 9 more outperform votes than W&T Offshore when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.29% of users gave Midstates Petroleum an outperform vote while only 52.88% of users gave W&T Offshore an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
W&T OffshoreOutperform Votes
275
52.88%
Underperform Votes
245
47.12%
Midstates PetroleumOutperform Votes
284
65.29%
Underperform Votes
151
34.71%

Midstates Petroleum has lower revenue, but higher earnings than W&T Offshore.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
W&T Offshore$514.34M0.40$15.60M-$0.72-1.92
Midstates Petroleum$208.64M0.26$49.78MN/AN/A

Summary

Midstates Petroleum beats W&T Offshore on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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MPO vs. The Competition

MetricMidstates PetroleumCrude Petroleum & Natural Gas IndustryEnergy SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$55.13M$7.67B$7.35B$19.28B
Dividend YieldN/A24.66%10.80%3.85%
P/E Ratio2.2010.5154.8434.43
Price / Sales0.267.5523,830.8734.86
Price / Cash1.007.3835.7217.51
Price / Book0.131.583.664.69
Net Income$49.78M$1.10B$4.33B$1.02B

Midstates Petroleum Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MPO
Midstates Petroleum
N/A$2.70
+0.7%
N/A-56.3%$55.13M$208.64M2.2085
WTI
W&T Offshore
0.6065 of 5 stars
$1.45
-0.3%
N/A-36.7%$213.36M$514.34M-3.36320News Coverage
Ex-Dividend
Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
BRY
Berry
4.2338 of 5 stars
$2.64
-3.3%
$5.00
+89.4%
-64.3%$204.85M$753.74M2.441,282Analyst Upgrade
PHX
PHX Minerals
1.259 of 5 stars
$4.32
-0.2%
N/A+32.8%$163.82M$37.79M33.2320News Coverage
Ex-Dividend
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
COP
ConocoPhillips
4.9181 of 5 stars
$89.63
-0.9%
$121.95
+36.1%
-27.6%$113.31B$57.41B11.519,500Positive News
Analyst Forecast
EOG
EOG Resources
4.8861 of 5 stars
$112.50
-1.3%
$141.05
+25.4%
-11.1%$61.40B$23.39B9.062,850News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
FANG
Diamondback Energy
4.8746 of 5 stars
$138.35
-0.7%
$194.09
+40.3%
-29.2%$40.42B$12.84B7.92970Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
EQT
EQT
4.3238 of 5 stars
$56.09
+1.0%
$56.67
+1.0%
+39.3%$33.58B$6.34B140.23740News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
DVN
Devon Energy
4.6297 of 5 stars
$32.15
-1.7%
$43.83
+36.3%
-35.4%$20.64B$16.80B7.051,800Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
RRC
Range Resources
4.167 of 5 stars
$39.72
+0.7%
$41.85
+5.4%
+9.9%$9.49B$2.60B20.06540Analyst Downgrade
CRK
Comstock Resources
2.6335 of 5 stars
$23.81
+0.4%
$15.32
-35.7%
+119.0%$6.97B$1.43B-31.33240Positive News
Analyst Forecast

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