MTDR vs. RRC, SWN, SM, KOS, CRK, CPE, EQT, MRO, DVN, and HESM
Should you be buying Matador Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Matador Resources include Range Resources (RRC), Southwestern Energy (SWN), SM Energy (SM), Kosmos Energy (KOS), Comstock Resources (CRK), Callon Petroleum (CPE), EQT (EQT), Marathon Oil (MRO), Devon Energy (DVN), and Hess Midstream (HESM). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Matador Resources (NYSE:MTDR) and Range Resources (NYSE:RRC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk and profitability.
Matador Resources presently has a consensus target price of $71.30, suggesting a potential upside of 6.72%. Range Resources has a consensus target price of $34.79, suggesting a potential upside of 0.29%. Given Matador Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Matador Resources is more favorable than Range Resources.
Range Resources received 330 more outperform votes than Matador Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.94% of users gave Matador Resources an outperform vote while only 60.02% of users gave Range Resources an outperform vote.
92.0% of Matador Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of Range Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of Matador Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Range Resources shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Matador Resources has a beta of 3.33, meaning that its stock price is 233% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Range Resources has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its stock price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Range Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Matador Resources. Matador Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Range Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Matador Resources had 33 more articles in the media than Range Resources. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Matador Resources and 2 mentions for Range Resources. Range Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Matador Resources' score of 0.18 indicating that Range Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Matador Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Range Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Matador Resources pays out 11.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Range Resources pays out 9.0% 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.
Matador Resources has a net margin of 30.14% compared to Range Resources' net margin of 25.82%. Matador Resources' return on equity of 21.54% beat Range Resources' return on equity.
Summary
Matador Resources beats Range Resources on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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