SD vs. EGY, BRY, WTI, PHX, COP, EOG, FANG, DVN, MRO, and EQT
Should you be buying SandRidge Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SandRidge Energy include VAALCO Energy (EGY), Berry (BRY), W&T Offshore (WTI), PHX Minerals (PHX), ConocoPhillips (COP), EOG Resources (EOG), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Devon Energy (DVN), Marathon Oil (MRO), and EQT (EQT). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas exploration & production" industry.
SandRidge Energy (NYSE:SD) and VAALCO Energy (NYSE:EGY) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
VAALCO Energy has a consensus price target of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 43.11%. Given VAALCO Energy's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe VAALCO Energy is more favorable than SandRidge Energy.
SandRidge Energy has a beta of 2.09, indicating that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VAALCO Energy has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SandRidge Energy received 28 more outperform votes than VAALCO Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.42% of users gave VAALCO Energy an outperform vote while only 51.16% of users gave SandRidge Energy an outperform vote.
SandRidge Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than VAALCO Energy. SandRidge Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VAALCO Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SandRidge Energy has a net margin of 31.47% compared to VAALCO Energy's net margin of 17.82%. VAALCO Energy's return on equity of 16.00% beat SandRidge Energy's return on equity.
61.8% of SandRidge Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.3% of VAALCO Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of SandRidge Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of VAALCO Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, SandRidge Energy and SandRidge Energy both had 1 articles in the media. VAALCO Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat SandRidge Energy's score of -1.00 indicating that VAALCO Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SandRidge Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. VAALCO Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. SandRidge Energy pays out 33.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. VAALCO Energy pays out 41.7% 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.
Summary
VAALCO Energy beats SandRidge Energy on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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