BRY vs. EGY, SBOW, SD, WTI, DEC, VTS, SOC, TTI, REPX, and TXO
Should you be buying Berry stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Berry include VAALCO Energy (EGY), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), SandRidge Energy (SD), W&T Offshore (WTI), Diversified Energy (DEC), Vitesse Energy (VTS), Sable Offshore (SOC), TETRA Technologies (TTI), Riley Exploration Permian (REPX), and TXO Partners (TXO). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
VAALCO Energy (NYSE:EGY) and Berry (NASDAQ:BRY) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
Berry has a consensus target price of $8.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.47%. Given VAALCO Energy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Berry is more favorable than VAALCO Energy.
VAALCO Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Berry. VAALCO Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Berry, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
VAALCO Energy has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Berry has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
VAALCO Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Berry pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. VAALCO Energy pays out 44.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Berry pays out 104.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. VAALCO Energy has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Berry received 5 more outperform votes than VAALCO Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.05% of users gave VAALCO Energy an outperform vote while only 55.94% of users gave Berry an outperform vote.
50.3% of VAALCO Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Berry shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of VAALCO Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Berry shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
VAALCO Energy has a net margin of 13.26% compared to VAALCO Energy's net margin of 4.14%. Berry's return on equity of 14.34% beat VAALCO Energy's return on equity.
In the previous week, VAALCO Energy had 7 more articles in the media than Berry. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for VAALCO Energy and 4 mentions for Berry. VAALCO Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Berry's score of 0.32 indicating that Berry is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
VAALCO Energy beats Berry on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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