GIFI vs. MVO, ORGN, MAXN, EPSN, PROP, VOC, FTK, SOL, PFIE, and KLXE
Should you be buying Gulf Island Fabrication stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gulf Island Fabrication include MV Oil Trust (MVO), Origin Materials (ORGN), Maxeon Solar Technologies (MAXN), Epsilon Energy (EPSN), Prairie Operating (PROP), VOC Energy Trust (VOC), Flotek Industries (FTK), Emeren Group (SOL), Profire Energy (PFIE), and KLX Energy Services (KLXE). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
MV Oil Trust (NYSE:MVO) and Gulf Island Fabrication (NASDAQ:GIFI) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and earnings.
MV Oil Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gulf Island Fabrication. Gulf Island Fabrication is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MV Oil Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
3.5% of MV Oil Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.4% of Gulf Island Fabrication shares are held by institutional investors. 20.1% of Gulf Island Fabrication shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Gulf Island Fabrication had 5 more articles in the media than MV Oil Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Gulf Island Fabrication and 0 mentions for MV Oil Trust. Gulf Island Fabrication's average media sentiment score of 1.94 beat MV Oil Trust's score of 0.24 indicating that MV Oil Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MV Oil Trust has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gulf Island Fabrication has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Gulf Island Fabrication received 30 more outperform votes than MV Oil Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.32% of users gave Gulf Island Fabrication an outperform vote while only 60.82% of users gave MV Oil Trust an outperform vote.
MV Oil Trust has a net margin of 92.93% compared to MV Oil Trust's net margin of -16.15%. Gulf Island Fabrication's return on equity of 0.00% beat MV Oil Trust's return on equity.
Summary
MV Oil Trust beats Gulf Island Fabrication on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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