PBR.A vs. EC, GBR, PBR, VOC, WDS, BAK, CSAN, HUSA, BRN, and USEG
Should you be buying PETROLEO BRASIL/S stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PETROLEO BRASIL/S include Ecopetrol (EC), New Concept Energy (GBR), Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras (PBR), VOC Energy Trust (VOC), Woodside Energy Group (WDS), Braskem (BAK), Cosan (CSAN), Houston American Energy (HUSA), Barnwell Industries (BRN), and U.S. Energy (USEG). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
PETROLEO BRASIL/S (NYSE:PBR.A) and Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Ecopetrol received 137 more outperform votes than PETROLEO BRASIL/S when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.79% of users gave PETROLEO BRASIL/S an outperform vote while only 53.30% of users gave Ecopetrol an outperform vote.
PETROLEO BRASIL/S pays an annual dividend of $0.49 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Ecopetrol pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.6%. PETROLEO BRASIL/S pays out 12.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ecopetrol pays out 92.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Ecopetrol has a consensus price target of $11.27, suggesting a potential downside of 4.36%. Given Ecopetrol's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ecopetrol is more favorable than PETROLEO BRASIL/S.
Ecopetrol has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PETROLEO BRASIL/S. PETROLEO BRASIL/S is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ecopetrol, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ecopetrol had 1 more articles in the media than PETROLEO BRASIL/S. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ecopetrol and 2 mentions for PETROLEO BRASIL/S. Ecopetrol's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat PETROLEO BRASIL/S's score of 0.00 indicating that Ecopetrol is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PETROLEO BRASIL/S has a net margin of 24.30% compared to Ecopetrol's net margin of 14.69%. Ecopetrol's return on equity of 66.73% beat PETROLEO BRASIL/S's return on equity.
PETROLEO BRASIL/S has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ecopetrol has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ecopetrol beats PETROLEO BRASIL/S on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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