MTR vs. MARPS, LITM, ROCG, SPI, HUSA, WAVE, OPTT, EPOW, VVPR, and HGAS
Should you be buying Mesa Royalty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mesa Royalty Trust include Marine Petroleum Trust (MARPS), Snow Lake Resources (LITM), Roth CH Acquisition IV (ROCG), SPI Energy (SPI), Houston American Energy (HUSA), Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ) (WAVE), Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT), Sunrise New Energy (EPOW), VivoPower International (VVPR), and Global Gas (HGAS). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Marine Petroleum Trust (NASDAQ:MARPS) and Mesa Royalty Trust (NYSE:MTR) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends and media sentiment.
Marine Petroleum Trust has a beta of 0.14, meaning that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mesa Royalty Trust has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Marine Petroleum Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.41 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. Mesa Royalty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Marine Petroleum Trust pays out 91.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mesa Royalty Trust pays out 15.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
1.8% of Marine Petroleum Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.7% of Mesa Royalty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 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.
Mesa Royalty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Marine Petroleum Trust. Mesa Royalty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marine Petroleum Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Marine Petroleum Trust received 64 more outperform votes than Mesa Royalty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.08% of users gave Mesa Royalty Trust an outperform vote while only 53.09% of users gave Marine Petroleum Trust an outperform vote.
Mesa Royalty Trust has a net margin of 87.08% compared to Mesa Royalty Trust's net margin of 76.23%. Marine Petroleum Trust's return on equity of 97.86% beat Mesa Royalty Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, Marine Petroleum Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Mesa Royalty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Marine Petroleum Trust and 0 mentions for Mesa Royalty Trust. Mesa Royalty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat Marine Petroleum Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Marine Petroleum Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Mesa Royalty Trust beats Marine Petroleum Trust on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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