MTR vs. MARPS, LITM, HUSA, ROCG, SPI, WAVE, EPOW, OPTT, HLGN, 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), Houston American Energy (HUSA), Roth CH Acquisition IV (ROCG), SPI Energy (SPI), Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ) (WAVE), Sunrise New Energy (EPOW), Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT), Heliogen (HLGN), 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 compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
1.8% of Marine Petroleum Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.7% of Mesa Royalty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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 52.90% of users gave Marine Petroleum Trust an outperform vote.
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 1.46 beat Marine Petroleum Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Marine Petroleum Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mesa Royalty Trust has a net margin of 86.57% compared to Mesa Royalty Trust's net margin of 70.95%. Mesa Royalty Trust's return on equity of 83.39% beat Marine Petroleum Trust's return on equity.
Marine Petroleum Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.41 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. Mesa Royalty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Marine Petroleum Trust pays out 102.5% 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.
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 has a beta of 0.14, suggesting that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mesa Royalty Trust has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Marine Petroleum Trust and Mesa Royalty Trust tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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