ENQ vs. PANR, GKP, GENL, GTE, PTAL, CNE, I3E, JSE, KIST, and SAVE
Should you be buying EnQuest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EnQuest include Pantheon Resources (PANR), Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), Genel Energy (GENL), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), PetroTal (PTAL), Capricorn Energy (CNE), i3 Energy (I3E), Jadestone Energy (JSE), Kistos (KIST), and Savannah Energy (SAVE). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Pantheon Resources (LON:PANR) and EnQuest (LON:ENQ) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Pantheon Resources currently has a consensus target price of GBX 120, suggesting a potential upside of 232.41%. EnQuest has a consensus target price of GBX 21, suggesting a potential upside of 25.19%. Given EnQuest's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pantheon Resources is more favorable than EnQuest.
Pantheon Resources has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Pantheon Resources' net margin of -14.90%. EnQuest's return on equity of -2.15% beat Pantheon Resources' return on equity.
Pantheon Resources has higher earnings, but lower revenue than EnQuest. Pantheon Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EnQuest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, EnQuest had 2 more articles in the media than Pantheon Resources. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for EnQuest and 1 mentions for Pantheon Resources. EnQuest's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Pantheon Resources' score of -0.67 indicating that Pantheon Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pantheon Resources has a beta of -0.29, meaning that its share price is 129% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EnQuest has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
5.2% of Pantheon Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.0% of EnQuest shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.8% of Pantheon Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.2% of EnQuest shares are owned 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.
EnQuest received 478 more outperform votes than Pantheon Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.49% of users gave Pantheon Resources an outperform vote while only 60.13% of users gave EnQuest an outperform vote.
Summary
Pantheon Resources beats EnQuest on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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