TXP vs. ZPHR, CHAR, PHAR, RKH, CASP, FOG, AET, ENW, AEX, and AXL
Should you be buying Touchstone Exploration stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Touchstone Exploration include Zephyr Energy (ZPHR), Chariot (CHAR), Pharos Energy (PHAR), Rockhopper Exploration (RKH), Caspian Sunrise (CASP), Falcon Oil & Gas (FOG), Afentra (AET), Enwell Energy (ENW), Aminex (AEX), and Arrow Exploration (AXL). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Touchstone Exploration (LON:TXP) and Zephyr Energy (LON:ZPHR) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and community ranking.
Touchstone Exploration currently has a consensus target price of GBX 100, indicating a potential upside of 154.13%. Given Touchstone Exploration's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Touchstone Exploration is more favorable than Zephyr Energy.
Zephyr Energy has a net margin of -1.77% compared to Touchstone Exploration's net margin of -57.23%. Zephyr Energy's return on equity of -0.74% beat Touchstone Exploration's return on equity.
Touchstone Exploration has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zephyr Energy has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Zephyr Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Touchstone Exploration's score of 0.00 indicating that Zephyr Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Touchstone Exploration received 5 more outperform votes than Zephyr Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Zephyr Energy an outperform vote while only 41.18% of users gave Touchstone Exploration an outperform vote.
12.0% of Touchstone Exploration shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.6% of Zephyr Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Touchstone Exploration shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.6% of Zephyr Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Zephyr Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Touchstone Exploration.
Summary
Zephyr Energy beats Touchstone Exploration on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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