TXP vs. PNE, KEI, HME, GTE, RBY, PRQ, ALV, AFE, BNE, and JOY
Should you be buying Touchstone Exploration stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Touchstone Exploration include Pine Cliff Energy (PNE), Kolibri Global Energy (KEI), Hemisphere Energy (HME), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Rubellite Energy (RBY), Petrus Resources (PRQ), Alvopetro Energy (ALV), Africa Energy (AFE), Bonterra Energy (BNE), and Journey Energy (JOY). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Touchstone Exploration vs. Its Competitors
Pine Cliff Energy (TSE:PNE) and Touchstone Exploration (TSE:TXP) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Touchstone Exploration has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pine Cliff Energy. Pine Cliff Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Touchstone Exploration, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Pine Cliff Energy had 1 more articles in the media than Touchstone Exploration. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Pine Cliff Energy and 2 mentions for Touchstone Exploration. Touchstone Exploration's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Pine Cliff Energy's score of 0.89 indicating that Touchstone Exploration is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pine Cliff Energy currently has a consensus price target of C$0.93, indicating a potential upside of 42.31%. Given Pine Cliff Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Pine Cliff Energy is more favorable than Touchstone Exploration.
11.6% of Pine Cliff Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.1% of Touchstone Exploration shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Pine Cliff Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of Touchstone Exploration shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pine Cliff Energy has a net margin of -8.28% compared to Touchstone Exploration's net margin of -20.31%. Pine Cliff Energy's return on equity of -18.45% beat Touchstone Exploration's return on equity.
Pine Cliff Energy has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Touchstone Exploration has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pine Cliff Energy beats Touchstone Exploration on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:TXP) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff