BCE vs. STAR, LBE, SYN, BLOE, ORCA, NOG, EOG, SDX, RBD, and IGAS
Should you be buying Beacon Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Beacon Energy include Star Energy Group (STAR), Longboat Energy (LBE), Synergia Energy (SYN), Block Energy (BLOE), Orcadian Energy (ORCA), Nostrum Oil & Gas (NOG), Europa Oil & Gas (EOG), SDX Energy (SDX), Reabold Resources (RBD), and IGas Energy (IGAS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Star Energy Group (LON:STAR) and Beacon Energy (LON:BCE) 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.
Star Energy Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 66, indicating a potential upside of 631.38%. Given Beacon Energy's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Star Energy Group is more favorable than Beacon Energy.
Beacon Energy has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Beacon Energy's net margin of -9.08%. Beacon Energy's return on equity of -9.71% beat Star Energy Group's return on equity.
Beacon Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Star Energy Group. Star Energy Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Beacon Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Star Energy Group had 1 more articles in the media than Beacon Energy. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Star Energy Group and 1 mentions for Beacon Energy. Beacon Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Star Energy Group's score of 0.34 indicating that Star Energy Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Star Energy Group has a beta of -0.09, indicating that its stock price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beacon Energy has a beta of -0.3, indicating that its stock price is 130% less volatile than the S&P 500.
40.4% of Star Energy Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.1% of Beacon Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Star Energy Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 42.2% of Beacon 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.
Star Energy Group received 343 more outperform votes than Beacon Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.92% of users gave Star Energy Group an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Beacon Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Star Energy Group beats Beacon Energy on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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