ZEN vs. AST, CORO, WCAT, PET, TRP, SENX, CAD, EME, MSMN, and UOG
Should you be buying Zenith Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zenith Energy include Ascent Resources (AST), Coro Energy (CORO), Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT), Petrel Resources (PET), Tower Resources (TRP), Serinus Energy (SENX), Cadogan Energy Solutions (CAD), Empyrean Energy (EME), Mosman Oil and Gas (MSMN), and United Oil & Gas (UOG). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Zenith Energy (LON:ZEN) and Ascent Resources (LON:AST) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Zenith Energy received 3 more outperform votes than Ascent Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.07% of users gave Zenith Energy an outperform vote while only 60.73% of users gave Ascent Resources an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Zenith Energy and Zenith Energy both had 2 articles in the media. Ascent Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Zenith Energy's score of 0.00 indicating that Ascent Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Zenith Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Ascent Resources. Zenith Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ascent Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Zenith Energy's return on equity of -23.77% beat Ascent Resources' return on equity.
3.6% of Zenith Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.1% of Ascent Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 16.6% of Zenith Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 59.3% of Ascent Resources 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.
Zenith Energy has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ascent Resources has a beta of -0.02, meaning that its share price is 102% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Zenith Energy beats Ascent Resources on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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