MTDR vs. SWN, RRC, SM, KOS, CRK, MRO, EQT, CHRD, HESM, and VNOM
Should you be buying Matador Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Matador Resources include Southwestern Energy (SWN), Range Resources (RRC), SM Energy (SM), Kosmos Energy (KOS), Comstock Resources (CRK), Marathon Oil (MRO), EQT (EQT), Chord Energy (CHRD), Hess Midstream (HESM), and Viper Energy (VNOM). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Matador Resources (NYSE:MTDR) and Southwestern Energy (NYSE:SWN) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
Matador Resources currently has a consensus target price of $74.30, indicating a potential upside of 13.24%. Southwestern Energy has a consensus target price of $8.14, indicating a potential upside of 5.60%. Given Matador Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Matador Resources is more favorable than Southwestern Energy.
Southwestern Energy received 236 more outperform votes than Matador Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.18% of users gave Matador Resources an outperform vote while only 57.34% of users gave Southwestern Energy an outperform vote.
92.0% of Matador Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.0% of Southwestern Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.0% of Matador Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Southwestern Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Matador Resources has a beta of 3.32, meaning that its stock price is 232% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southwestern Energy has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Southwestern Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Matador Resources. Southwestern Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Matador Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Matador Resources had 26 more articles in the media than Southwestern Energy. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for Matador Resources and 15 mentions for Southwestern Energy. Southwestern Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Matador Resources' score of 0.57 indicating that Southwestern Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Matador Resources has a net margin of 28.89% compared to Southwestern Energy's net margin of 23.87%. Matador Resources' return on equity of 20.62% beat Southwestern Energy's return on equity.
Summary
Matador Resources beats Southwestern Energy on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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