RRC vs. SWN, MTDR, SM, CRK, MRO, KOS, EQT, DVN, APA, and HESM
Should you be buying Range Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Range Resources include Southwestern Energy (SWN), Matador Resources (MTDR), SM Energy (SM), Comstock Resources (CRK), Marathon Oil (MRO), Kosmos Energy (KOS), EQT (EQT), Devon Energy (DVN), APA (APA), and Hess Midstream (HESM). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Southwestern Energy (NYSE:SWN) and Range Resources (NYSE:RRC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Southwestern Energy has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Range Resources has a beta of 1.85, indicating that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Southwestern Energy presently has a consensus target price of $8.21, indicating a potential upside of 8.07%. Range Resources has a consensus target price of $36.81, indicating a potential upside of 0.38%. Given Range Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Southwestern Energy is more favorable than Range Resources.
Range Resources has a net margin of 17.00% compared to Range Resources' net margin of -32.93%. Southwestern Energy's return on equity of 13.30% beat Range Resources' return on equity.
Range Resources received 94 more outperform votes than Southwestern Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.89% of users gave Range Resources an outperform vote while only 57.23% of users gave Southwestern Energy an outperform vote.
87.0% of Southwestern Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of Range Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Southwestern Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Range Resources shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Southwestern Energy had 8 more articles in the media than Range Resources. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Southwestern Energy and 9 mentions for Range Resources. Southwestern Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Range Resources' score of 0.61 indicating that Range Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Southwestern Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Range Resources. Southwestern Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Range Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Range Resources beats Southwestern Energy on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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