MVO vs. RNGR, PNRG, GTE, TUSK, EPSN, KLXE, PROP, VOC, PED, and PVL
Should you be buying MV Oil Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MV Oil Trust include Ranger Energy Services (RNGR), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Mammoth Energy Services (TUSK), Epsilon Energy (EPSN), KLX Energy Services (KLXE), Prairie Operating (PROP), VOC Energy Trust (VOC), PEDEVCO (PED), and Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL). These companies are all part of the "petroleum and natural gas" industry.
MV Oil Trust (NYSE:MVO) and Ranger Energy Services (NYSE:RNGR) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Ranger Energy Services has a consensus target price of $12.50, suggesting a potential upside of 7.94%. Given Ranger Energy Services' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ranger Energy Services is more favorable than MV Oil Trust.
3.5% of MV Oil Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.1% of Ranger Energy Services shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Ranger Energy Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MV Oil Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.0%. Ranger Energy Services pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. MV Oil Trust pays out 107.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ranger Energy Services pays out 29.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MV Oil Trust has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. MV Oil Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
MV Oil Trust has a net margin of 95.46% compared to Ranger Energy Services' net margin of 2.61%. Ranger Energy Services' return on equity of 5.73% beat MV Oil Trust's return on equity.
Ranger Energy Services received 106 more outperform votes than MV Oil Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.21% of users gave Ranger Energy Services an outperform vote while only 60.97% of users gave MV Oil Trust an outperform vote.
MV Oil Trust has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ranger Energy Services has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ranger Energy Services had 1 more articles in the media than MV Oil Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Ranger Energy Services and 1 mentions for MV Oil Trust. Ranger Energy Services' average media sentiment score of 1.80 beat MV Oil Trust's score of -1.00 indicating that Ranger Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ranger Energy Services has higher revenue and earnings than MV Oil Trust. MV Oil Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ranger Energy Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ranger Energy Services beats MV Oil Trust on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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