EGY vs. BRY, SD, SBOW, WTI, TXO, DEC, SOC, VTS, REPX, and TTI
Should you be buying VAALCO Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VAALCO Energy include Berry (BRY), SandRidge Energy (SD), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), W&T Offshore (WTI), TXO Partners (TXO), Diversified Energy (DEC), Sable Offshore (SOC), Vitesse Energy (VTS), Riley Exploration Permian (REPX), and TETRA Technologies (TTI). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Berry (NASDAQ:BRY) and VAALCO Energy (NYSE:EGY) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
94.9% of Berry shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.3% of VAALCO Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Berry shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of VAALCO Energy shares are owned by 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.
VAALCO Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Berry. VAALCO 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 pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. VAALCO Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Berry pays out 4,800.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. VAALCO Energy pays out 41.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Berry has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and VAALCO Energy has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Berry is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Berry has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VAALCO Energy has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Berry received 5 more outperform votes than VAALCO Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.05% of users gave VAALCO Energy an outperform vote while only 55.94% of users gave Berry an outperform vote.
Berry currently has a consensus price target of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.96%. Given VAALCO Energy's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Berry is more favorable than VAALCO Energy.
VAALCO Energy has a net margin of 13.60% compared to VAALCO Energy's net margin of 0.41%. Berry's return on equity of 14.04% beat VAALCO Energy's return on equity.
In the previous week, Berry had 10 more articles in the media than VAALCO Energy. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Berry and 2 mentions for VAALCO Energy. Berry's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat VAALCO Energy's score of 0.58 indicating that VAALCO Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Berry and VAALCO Energy tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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