PHX vs. VET, VNR, NOA, OBE, CEI, MPC, HME, GTE, HAL, and E
Should you be buying PHX Energy Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PHX Energy Services include Vermilion Energy (VET), Valener (VNR), North American Construction Group (NOA), Obsidian Energy (OBE), Coelacanth Energy (CEI), Madison Pacific Properties (MPC), Hemisphere Energy (HME), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Global X Active Canadian Dividend ETF Common (HAL), and Enterprise Group (E). These companies are all part of the "petroleum and natural gas" industry.
PHX Energy Services vs.
Vermilion Energy (TSE:VET) and PHX Energy Services (TSE:PHX) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.
PHX Energy Services has a net margin of 11.40% compared to Vermilion Energy's net margin of -42.01%. PHX Energy Services' return on equity of 34.01% beat Vermilion Energy's return on equity.
Vermilion Energy pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. PHX Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.6%. Vermilion Energy pays out -9.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PHX Energy Services pays out 50.3% 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.
44.8% of Vermilion Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.3% of PHX Energy Services shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Vermilion Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of PHX Energy Services 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.
Vermilion Energy has a beta of 2.6, indicating that its stock price is 160% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PHX Energy Services has a beta of 2.32, indicating that its stock price is 132% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PHX Energy Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Vermilion Energy. Vermilion Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PHX Energy Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vermilion Energy presently has a consensus target price of C$15.72, suggesting a potential upside of 88.97%. PHX Energy Services has a consensus target price of C$11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 51.92%. Given Vermilion Energy's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Vermilion Energy is more favorable than PHX Energy Services.
Vermilion Energy received 378 more outperform votes than PHX Energy Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.29% of users gave PHX Energy Services an outperform vote while only 56.92% of users gave Vermilion Energy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Vermilion Energy had 5 more articles in the media than PHX Energy Services. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Vermilion Energy and 0 mentions for PHX Energy Services. PHX Energy Services' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Vermilion Energy's score of 0.22 indicating that PHX Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
PHX Energy Services beats Vermilion Energy on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:PHX) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
