BNE vs. JOY, IPO, GXE, RBY, TXP, PRQ, CNE, KEI, PNE, and YGR
Should you be buying Bonterra Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bonterra Energy include Journey Energy (JOY), InPlay Oil (IPO), Gear Energy (GXE), Rubellite Energy (RBY), Touchstone Exploration (TXP), Petrus Resources (PRQ), Canacol Energy (CNE), Kolibri Global Energy (KEI), Pine Cliff Energy (PNE), and Yangarra Resources (YGR). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Journey Energy (TSE:JOY) and Bonterra Energy (TSE:BNE) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Bonterra Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Journey Energy. Bonterra Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Journey Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Journey Energy had 5 more articles in the media than Bonterra Energy. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Journey Energy and 3 mentions for Bonterra Energy. Journey Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Bonterra Energy's score of 0.51 indicating that Bonterra Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
15.8% of Journey Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.2% of Bonterra Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of Journey Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.9% of Bonterra Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bonterra Energy received 265 more outperform votes than Journey Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.73% of users gave Bonterra Energy an outperform vote while only 56.30% of users gave Journey Energy an outperform vote.
Bonterra Energy has a net margin of 16.44% compared to Bonterra Energy's net margin of 8.46%. Journey Energy's return on equity of 8.92% beat Bonterra Energy's return on equity.
Journey Energy presently has a consensus target price of C$6.63, indicating a potential upside of 69.22%. Bonterra Energy has a consensus target price of C$8.92, indicating a potential upside of 48.61%. Given Bonterra Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Journey Energy is more favorable than Bonterra Energy.
Journey Energy pays an annual dividend of C$0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Bonterra Energy pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Journey Energy pays out 125.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bonterra Energy pays out 10.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Journey Energy has a beta of 3.63, suggesting that its share price is 263% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bonterra Energy has a beta of 2.85, suggesting that its share price is 185% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bonterra Energy beats Journey Energy on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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