IGAS vs. STAR, DELT, INDI, CEG, BOIL, SYN, BOR, SOU, PMG, and SOUC
Should you be buying IGas Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IGas Energy include Star Energy Group (STAR), Deltic Energy (DELT), Indus Gas (INDI), Challenger Energy Group (CEG), Baron Oil (BOIL), Synergia Energy (SYN), Borders & Southern Petroleum (BOR), Sound Energy (SOU), The Parkmead Group (PMG), and Southern Energy (SOUC). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Star Energy Group (LON:STAR) and IGas Energy (LON:IGAS) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and analyst recommendations.
Star Energy Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than IGas Energy. Star Energy Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IGas Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Star Energy Group has a beta of -0.09, meaning that its stock price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IGas Energy has a beta of -0.04, meaning that its stock price is 104% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Star Energy Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 66, suggesting a potential upside of 631.38%. IGas Energy has a consensus target price of GBX 70, suggesting a potential upside of 508.70%. Given IGas Energy's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Star Energy Group is more favorable than IGas Energy.
Star Energy Group received 5 more outperform votes than IGas Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.92% of users gave Star Energy Group an outperform vote while only 72.53% of users gave IGas Energy an outperform vote.
Star Energy Group has a net margin of -9.08% compared to Star Energy Group's net margin of -19.91%. IGas Energy's return on equity of -9.71% beat Star Energy Group's return on equity.
40.4% of Star Energy Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.7% of IGas Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Star Energy Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of IGas Energy shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Star Energy Group had 1 more articles in the media than IGas Energy. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Star Energy Group and 0 mentions for IGas Energy. IGas Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Star Energy Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Star Energy Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Star Energy Group beats IGas Energy on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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