EGY vs. BRY, SBOW, SD, WTI, DEC, VTS, SOC, TTI, REPX, and TXO
Should you be buying VAALCO Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VAALCO Energy include Berry (BRY), 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.
Berry (NASDAQ:BRY) and VAALCO Energy (NYSE:EGY) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
Berry currently has a consensus price target of $8.00, suggesting a potential downside of 8.47%. Given VAALCO Energy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Berry is more favorable than VAALCO Energy.
Berry pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. VAALCO Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Berry pays out 104.3% 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 pays out 44.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
VAALCO Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Berry has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VAALCO Energy has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
94.9% of Berry shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.3% of VAALCO Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Berry shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of VAALCO Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, VAALCO Energy had 6 more articles in the media than Berry. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for VAALCO Energy and 4 mentions for Berry. VAALCO Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Berry's score of 0.32 indicating that Berry is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
VAALCO Energy beats Berry on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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