MXC vs. USEG, BRN, HUSA, PRT, PVL, INDO, PED, BATL, MVO, and EPSN
Should you be buying Mexco Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mexco Energy include U.S. Energy (USEG), Barnwell Industries (BRN), Houston American Energy (HUSA), PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), Indonesia Energy (INDO), PEDEVCO (PED), Battalion Oil (BATL), MV Oil Trust (MVO), and Epsilon Energy (EPSN). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Mexco Energy (NYSE:MXC) and U.S. Energy (NASDAQ:USEG) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
5.9% of Mexco Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.0% of U.S. Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 51.0% of Mexco Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.6% of U.S. Energy shares are held by company 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.
Mexco Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than U.S. Energy. U.S. Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mexco Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, U.S. Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Mexco Energy. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for U.S. Energy and 1 mentions for Mexco Energy. U.S. Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Mexco Energy's score of 0.80 indicating that U.S. Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
U.S. Energy received 193 more outperform votes than Mexco Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.78% of users gave U.S. Energy an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Mexco Energy an outperform vote.
Mexco Energy has a net margin of 28.37% compared to U.S. Energy's net margin of -100.13%. Mexco Energy's return on equity of 11.61% beat U.S. Energy's return on equity.
Mexco Energy has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Energy has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mexco Energy beats U.S. Energy on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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