MPO vs. PHX, WTI, SD, PROP, EPSN, MVO, PNRG, BATL, PED, and PRT
Should you be buying Midstates Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Midstates Petroleum include PHX Minerals (PHX), W&T Offshore (WTI), SandRidge Energy (SD), Prairie Operating (PROP), Epsilon Energy (EPSN), MV Oil Trust (MVO), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), Battalion Oil (BATL), PEDEVCO (PED), and PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
PHX Minerals (NYSE:PHX) and Midstates Petroleum (NYSE:MPO) 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 analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
PHX Minerals has a net margin of 31.31% compared to PHX Minerals' net margin of 14.67%. PHX Minerals' return on equity of 9.99% beat Midstates Petroleum's return on equity.
PHX Minerals has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Midstates Petroleum has a beta of 2.13, indicating that its share price is 113% more volatile than the S&P 500.
38.2% of PHX Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Midstates Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of PHX Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Midstates Petroleum shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
PHX Minerals presently has a consensus price target of $5.20, suggesting a potential upside of 58.54%. Given Midstates Petroleum's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe PHX Minerals is more favorable than Midstates Petroleum.
Midstates Petroleum has higher revenue and earnings than PHX Minerals.
Midstates Petroleum received 21 more outperform votes than PHX Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.29% of users gave Midstates Petroleum an outperform vote while only 63.99% of users gave PHX Minerals an outperform vote.
In the previous week, PHX Minerals had 5 more articles in the media than Midstates Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for PHX Minerals and 0 mentions for Midstates Petroleum. PHX Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Midstates Petroleum's score of 0.00 indicating that Midstates Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Midstates Petroleum beats PHX Minerals on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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