QEC vs. YGR, TNZ, PPR, PMT, KEI, RBY, TXP, CNE, PRQ, and GXE
Should you be buying Questerre Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Questerre Energy include Yangarra Resources (YGR), Tenaz Energy (TNZ), Prairie Provident Resources (PPR), Perpetual Energy (PMT), Kolibri Global Energy (KEI), Rubellite Energy (RBY), Touchstone Exploration (TXP), Canacol Energy (CNE), Petrus Resources (PRQ), and Gear Energy (GXE). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Yangarra Resources (TSE:YGR) and Questerre Energy (TSE:QEC) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Yangarra Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Questerre Energy. Questerre Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yangarra Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Yangarra Resources has a net margin of 30.65% compared to Yangarra Resources' net margin of -66.40%. Questerre Energy's return on equity of 9.24% beat Yangarra Resources' return on equity.
3.0% of Yangarra Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.4% of Questerre Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.4% of Yangarra Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Questerre Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Yangarra Resources currently has a consensus price target of C$1.70, indicating a potential upside of 45.30%. Given Questerre Energy's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Yangarra Resources is more favorable than Questerre Energy.
Yangarra Resources has a beta of 2.39, indicating that its stock price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Questerre Energy has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Yangarra Resources had 9 more articles in the media than Questerre Energy. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Yangarra Resources and 1 mentions for Questerre Energy. Yangarra Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Questerre Energy's score of 0.14 indicating that Questerre Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Yangarra Resources received 134 more outperform votes than Questerre Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.05% of users gave Questerre Energy an outperform vote while only 64.94% of users gave Yangarra Resources an outperform vote.
Summary
Yangarra Resources beats Questerre Energy on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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