SD vs. BRY, EGY, WTI, SBOW, GPRK, TTI, TXO, GFR, SOC, and REPX
Should you be buying SandRidge Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SandRidge Energy include Berry (BRY), VAALCO Energy (EGY), W&T Offshore (WTI), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), GeoPark (GPRK), TETRA Technologies (TTI), TXO Partners (TXO), Greenfire Resources (GFR), Sable Offshore (SOC), and Riley Exploration Permian (REPX). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
SandRidge Energy (NYSE:SD) and Berry (NASDAQ:BRY) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
SandRidge Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Berry. SandRidge 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 consensus price target of $8.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.99%. Given Berry's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Berry is more favorable than SandRidge Energy.
SandRidge Energy has a net margin of 40.94% compared to Berry's net margin of 4.14%. SandRidge Energy's return on equity of 14.50% beat Berry's return on equity.
SandRidge Energy has a beta of 2.15, indicating that its share price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Berry has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
61.8% of SandRidge Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Berry shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of SandRidge Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Berry 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.
SandRidge Energy received 27 more outperform votes than Berry when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.94% of users gave Berry an outperform vote while only 51.16% of users gave SandRidge Energy an outperform vote.
SandRidge Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Berry pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. SandRidge Energy pays out 26.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Berry pays out 104.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Berry had 2 more articles in the media than SandRidge Energy. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Berry and 2 mentions for SandRidge Energy. Berry's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat SandRidge Energy's score of 0.27 indicating that Berry is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
SandRidge Energy beats Berry on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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