GPRK vs. SD, TTI, TXO, SOC, REPX, GFR, BRY, VTS, EGY, and DEC
Should you be buying GeoPark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GeoPark include SandRidge Energy (SD), TETRA Technologies (TTI), TXO Partners (TXO), Sable Offshore (SOC), Riley Exploration Permian (REPX), Greenfire Resources (GFR), Berry (BRY), Vitesse Energy (VTS), VAALCO Energy (EGY), and Diversified Energy (DEC). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
SandRidge Energy (NYSE:SD) and GeoPark (NYSE:GPRK) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
GeoPark has a consensus price target of $13.17, suggesting a potential upside of 42.65%. Given SandRidge Energy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe GeoPark is more favorable than SandRidge Energy.
SandRidge Energy has a net margin of 40.94% compared to SandRidge Energy's net margin of 14.69%. SandRidge Energy's return on equity of 79.78% beat GeoPark's return on equity.
GeoPark received 34 more outperform votes than SandRidge Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.65% of users gave GeoPark an outperform vote while only 51.16% of users gave SandRidge Energy an outperform vote.
GeoPark has higher revenue and earnings than SandRidge Energy. GeoPark is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SandRidge Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SandRidge Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. GeoPark pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. SandRidge Energy pays out 26.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GeoPark pays out 27.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. SandRidge Energy has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and GeoPark has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. GeoPark is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
SandRidge Energy has a beta of 2.15, indicating that its share price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GeoPark has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, GeoPark had 1 more articles in the media than SandRidge Energy. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for GeoPark and 2 mentions for SandRidge Energy. SandRidge Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat GeoPark's score of 0.27 indicating that GeoPark is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
61.8% of SandRidge Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.2% of GeoPark shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of SandRidge Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
GeoPark beats SandRidge Energy on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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