USEG vs. BRN, MXC, INDO, HUSA, PVL, PRT, PED, BATL, MVO, and EPSN
Should you be buying U.S. Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Energy include Barnwell Industries (BRN), Mexco Energy (MXC), Indonesia Energy (INDO), Houston American Energy (HUSA), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT), PEDEVCO (PED), Battalion Oil (BATL), MV Oil Trust (MVO), and Epsilon Energy (EPSN). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
U.S. Energy (NASDAQ:USEG) and Barnwell Industries (NYSE:BRN) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Barnwell Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than U.S. Energy. Barnwell Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than U.S. Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
3.0% of U.S. Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.7% of Barnwell Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 70.9% of U.S. Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.6% of Barnwell Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
U.S. Energy received 193 more outperform votes than Barnwell Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.62% of users gave U.S. Energy an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Barnwell Industries an outperform vote.
Barnwell Industries has a net margin of -11.35% compared to U.S. Energy's net margin of -100.13%. Barnwell Industries' return on equity of -14.70% beat U.S. Energy's return on equity.
In the previous week, U.S. Energy had 5 more articles in the media than Barnwell Industries. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for U.S. Energy and 4 mentions for Barnwell Industries. U.S. Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Barnwell Industries' score of 0.67 indicating that U.S. Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
U.S. Energy has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barnwell Industries has a beta of 0.15, indicating that its share price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
U.S. Energy beats Barnwell Industries on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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