GENL vs. GKP, GTE, PANR, CNE, JSE, ENQ, I3E, KIST, SAVE, and TXP
Should you be buying Genel Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genel Energy include Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Pantheon Resources (PANR), Capricorn Energy (CNE), Jadestone Energy (JSE), EnQuest (ENQ), i3 Energy (I3E), Kistos (KIST), Savannah Energy (SAVE), and Touchstone Exploration (TXP). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum (LON:GKP) and Genel Energy (LON:GENL) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation and profitability.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genel Energy has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum has higher revenue and earnings than Genel Energy. Gulf Keystone Petroleum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genel Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
32.0% of Gulf Keystone Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.1% of Genel Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.1% of Gulf Keystone Petroleum shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 68.0% of Genel Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Gulf Keystone Petroleum had 5 more articles in the media than Genel Energy. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Gulf Keystone Petroleum and 0 mentions for Genel Energy. Gulf Keystone Petroleum's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Genel Energy's score of 0.00 indicating that Genel Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Genel Energy received 91 more outperform votes than Gulf Keystone Petroleum when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.94% of users gave Genel Energy an outperform vote while only 65.09% of users gave Gulf Keystone Petroleum an outperform vote.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum presently has a consensus target price of GBX 211.33, suggesting a potential upside of 86.20%. Genel Energy has a consensus target price of GBX 105, suggesting a potential upside of 25.60%. Given Genel Energy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gulf Keystone Petroleum is more favorable than Genel Energy.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum pays an annual dividend of GBX 54 per share and has a dividend yield of 47.6%. Genel Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.9%. Gulf Keystone Petroleum pays out -135,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Genel Energy pays out -3,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Gulf Keystone Petroleum is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum has a net margin of -9.31% compared to Gulf Keystone Petroleum's net margin of -72.29%. Genel Energy's return on equity of -2.05% beat Gulf Keystone Petroleum's return on equity.
Summary
Gulf Keystone Petroleum beats Genel Energy on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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