TLW vs. DEC, EGY, PTAL, SAVE, ENQ, PANR, SQZ, GKP, GENL, and SEPL
Should you be buying Tullow Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tullow Oil include Diversified Energy (DEC), VAALCO Energy (EGY), PetroTal (PTAL), Savannah Energy (SAVE), EnQuest (ENQ), Pantheon Resources (PANR), Serica Energy (SQZ), Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), Genel Energy (GENL), and Seplat Energy (SEPL). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Diversified Energy (LON:DEC) and Tullow Oil (LON:TLW) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
Diversified Energy has a net margin of 93.96% compared to Diversified Energy's net margin of -6.71%. Tullow Oil's return on equity of 329.81% beat Diversified Energy's return on equity.
71.0% of Diversified Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of Tullow Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of Diversified Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.1% of Tullow Oil shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Diversified Energy presently has a consensus price target of GBX 175, indicating a potential downside of 84.42%. Tullow Oil has a consensus price target of GBX 64.50, indicating a potential upside of 75.75%. Given Diversified Energy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Tullow Oil is more favorable than Diversified Energy.
Diversified Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 274 per share and has a dividend yield of 24.4%. Tullow Oil pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. Diversified Energy pays out 2,169.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Tullow Oil pays out -6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Tullow Oil received 1201 more outperform votes than Diversified Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Diversified Energy an outperform vote while only 69.78% of users gave Tullow Oil an outperform vote.
Diversified Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tullow Oil. Tullow Oil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diversified Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Diversified Energy and Diversified Energy both had 1 articles in the media. Tullow Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Diversified Energy's score of 0.59 indicating that Diversified Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Diversified Energy has a beta of 0.16, suggesting that its share price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tullow Oil has a beta of 2.08, suggesting that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Diversified Energy beats Tullow Oil on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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