BSM vs. CRC, CNX, CRK, ERF, NOG, KOS, VIST, SSL, TALO, and AESI
Should you be buying Black Stone Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Black Stone Minerals include California Resources (CRC), CNX Resources (CNX), Comstock Resources (CRK), Enerplus (ERF), Northern Oil and Gas (NOG), Kosmos Energy (KOS), Vista Energy (VIST), Sasol (SSL), Talos Energy (TALO), and Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Black Stone Minerals (NYSE:BSM) and California Resources (NYSE:CRC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Black Stone Minerals pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. California Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Black Stone Minerals pays out 80.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. California Resources pays out 16.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
California Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Black Stone Minerals. California Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Black Stone Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
California Resources received 69 more outperform votes than Black Stone Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.97% of users gave California Resources an outperform vote while only 60.33% of users gave Black Stone Minerals an outperform vote.
14.5% of Black Stone Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of California Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.6% of Black Stone Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of California Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Black Stone Minerals has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, California Resources has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Black Stone Minerals has a net margin of 70.46% compared to California Resources' net margin of 20.14%. Black Stone Minerals' return on equity of 42.38% beat California Resources' return on equity.
Black Stone Minerals currently has a consensus price target of $19.33, suggesting a potential upside of 18.61%. California Resources has a consensus price target of $63.57, suggesting a potential upside of 26.66%. Given California Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe California Resources is more favorable than Black Stone Minerals.
In the previous week, California Resources had 11 more articles in the media than Black Stone Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for California Resources and 7 mentions for Black Stone Minerals. California Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Black Stone Minerals' score of 0.25 indicating that California Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
California Resources beats Black Stone Minerals on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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