MVO vs. EPSN, PHX, BATL, PED, PROP, PRT, PVL, PNRG, INDO, and USEG
Should you be buying MV Oil Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MV Oil Trust include Epsilon Energy (EPSN), PHX Minerals (PHX), Battalion Oil (BATL), PEDEVCO (PED), Prairie Operating (PROP), PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), Indonesia Energy (INDO), and U.S. Energy (USEG). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
MV Oil Trust (NYSE:MVO) and Epsilon Energy (NASDAQ:EPSN) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, earnings and analyst recommendations.
MV Oil Trust has a net margin of 94.48% compared to Epsilon Energy's net margin of 16.77%. Epsilon Energy's return on equity of 4.89% beat MV Oil Trust's return on equity.
MV Oil Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. Epsilon Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. MV Oil Trust pays out 86.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Epsilon Energy pays out 108.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MV Oil Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Epsilon Energy had 1 more articles in the media than MV Oil Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Epsilon Energy and 2 mentions for MV Oil Trust. Epsilon Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat MV Oil Trust's score of 1.57 indicating that Epsilon Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
3.5% of MV Oil Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.3% of Epsilon Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Epsilon Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
MV Oil Trust received 148 more outperform votes than Epsilon Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.54% of users gave Epsilon Energy an outperform vote while only 60.97% of users gave MV Oil Trust an outperform vote.
MV Oil Trust has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Epsilon Energy has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MV Oil Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Epsilon Energy. MV Oil Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Epsilon Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
MV Oil Trust beats Epsilon Energy on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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