TXP vs. JOY, IPO, CNE, BNE, PRQ, GXE, KEI, RBY, GTE, and QEC
Should you be buying Touchstone Exploration stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Touchstone Exploration include Journey Energy (JOY), InPlay Oil (IPO), Canacol Energy (CNE), Bonterra Energy (BNE), Petrus Resources (PRQ), Gear Energy (GXE), Kolibri Global Energy (KEI), Rubellite Energy (RBY), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), and Questerre Energy (QEC). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Journey Energy (TSE:JOY) and Touchstone Exploration (TSE:TXP) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Journey Energy has a net margin of 8.46% compared to Journey Energy's net margin of -4.87%. Touchstone Exploration's return on equity of 5.26% beat Journey Energy's return on equity.
15.8% of Journey Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.1% of Touchstone Exploration shares are held by institutional investors. 9.2% of Journey Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Touchstone Exploration shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Journey Energy has a beta of 3.63, indicating that its stock price is 263% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Touchstone Exploration has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Touchstone Exploration received 18 more outperform votes than Journey Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.86% of users gave Touchstone Exploration an outperform vote while only 56.30% of users gave Journey Energy an outperform vote.
Journey Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Touchstone Exploration.
In the previous week, Journey Energy had 1 more articles in the media than Touchstone Exploration. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Journey Energy and 6 mentions for Touchstone Exploration. Touchstone Exploration's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Journey Energy's score of 0.67 indicating that Journey Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Journey Energy currently has a consensus price target of C$6.63, suggesting a potential upside of 111.93%. Touchstone Exploration has a consensus price target of C$200.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22,627.27%. Given Journey Energy's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Touchstone Exploration is more favorable than Journey Energy.
Summary
Journey Energy beats Touchstone Exploration on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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