WTI vs. SD, PHX, EGY, BRY, SBOW, GFR, AMPY, PNRG, GPRK, and TXO
Should you be buying W&T Offshore stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of W&T Offshore include SandRidge Energy (SD), PHX Minerals (PHX), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Berry (BRY), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), Greenfire Resources (GFR), Amplify Energy (AMPY), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), GeoPark (GPRK), and TXO Partners (TXO). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI) and SandRidge Energy (NYSE:SD) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings and institutional ownership.
W&T Offshore pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. SandRidge Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. W&T Offshore pays out 40.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SandRidge Energy pays out 26.8% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
SandRidge Energy has a net margin of 40.94% compared to W&T Offshore's net margin of 2.93%. SandRidge Energy's return on equity of 14.50% beat W&T Offshore's return on equity.
42.9% of W&T Offshore shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.8% of SandRidge Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 33.5% of W&T Offshore shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of SandRidge Energy shares are held by company 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.
W&T Offshore has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SandRidge Energy has a beta of 2.15, meaning that its stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SandRidge Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than W&T Offshore. SandRidge Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than W&T Offshore, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, W&T Offshore had 13 more articles in the media than SandRidge Energy. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for W&T Offshore and 2 mentions for SandRidge Energy. SandRidge Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat W&T Offshore's score of -0.02 indicating that SandRidge Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SandRidge Energy received 11 more outperform votes than W&T Offshore when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.92% of users gave W&T Offshore an outperform vote while only 51.16% of users gave SandRidge Energy an outperform vote.
W&T Offshore currently has a consensus price target of $7.80, suggesting a potential upside of 231.91%. Given W&T Offshore's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe W&T Offshore is more favorable than SandRidge Energy.
Summary
SandRidge Energy beats W&T Offshore on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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