MTDR vs. PDCE, SWN, RRC, SM, KOS, CRK, CPE, EQT, MRO, and PR
Should you be buying Matador Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Matador Resources include PDC Energy (PDCE), Southwestern Energy (SWN), Range Resources (RRC), SM Energy (SM), Kosmos Energy (KOS), Comstock Resources (CRK), Callon Petroleum (CPE), EQT (EQT), Marathon Oil (MRO), and Permian Resources (PR). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Matador Resources vs.
Matador Resources (NYSE:MTDR) and PDC Energy (NASDAQ:PDCE) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
Matador Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. PDC Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Matador Resources pays out 5.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PDC Energy pays out 8.6% 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.
87.0% of Matador Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of PDC Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.6% of Matador Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of PDC Energy shares are owned by company 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.
PDC Energy has a net margin of 46.24% compared to Matador Resources' net margin of 39.71%. Matador Resources' return on equity of 44.14% beat PDC Energy's return on equity.
PDC Energy received 385 more outperform votes than Matador Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.49% of users gave PDC Energy an outperform vote while only 72.84% of users gave Matador Resources an outperform vote.
PDC Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Matador Resources. PDC Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Matador Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Matador Resources had 4 more articles in the media than PDC Energy. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Matador Resources and 6 mentions for PDC Energy. PDC Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Matador Resources' score of 0.64 indicating that PDC Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Matador Resources presently has a consensus target price of $68.63, suggesting a potential upside of 44.17%. PDC Energy has a consensus target price of $83.33, suggesting a potential upside of 31.05%. Given Matador Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Matador Resources is more favorable than PDC Energy.
Matador Resources has a beta of 3.55, indicating that its stock price is 255% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PDC Energy has a beta of 2.54, indicating that its stock price is 154% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Matador Resources beats PDC Energy on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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