VTLE vs. VET, PARR, KRP, CRGY, TALO, DMLP, AESI, GRNT, SBOW, and KOS
Should you be buying Vital Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vital Energy include Vermilion Energy (VET), Par Pacific (PARR), Kimbell Royalty Partners (KRP), Crescent Energy (CRGY), Talos Energy (TALO), Dorchester Minerals (DMLP), Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI), Granite Ridge Resources (GRNT), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), and Kosmos Energy (KOS). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Vermilion Energy (NYSE:VET) and Vital Energy (NYSE:VTLE) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Vermilion Energy presently has a consensus target price of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 102.76%. Vital Energy has a consensus target price of $59.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.15%. Given Vital Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Vermilion Energy is more favorable than Vital Energy.
In the previous week, Vital Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Vermilion Energy. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Vital Energy and 8 mentions for Vermilion Energy. Vermilion Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Vital Energy's score of 0.58 indicating that Vital Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vital Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Vermilion Energy. Vermilion Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vital Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vital Energy has a net margin of 30.34% compared to Vital Energy's net margin of -30.71%. Vermilion Energy's return on equity of 14.22% beat Vital Energy's return on equity.
Vermilion Energy has a beta of 2.04, suggesting that its stock price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vital Energy has a beta of 3.23, suggesting that its stock price is 223% more volatile than the S&P 500.
31.9% of Vermilion Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of Vital Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Vermilion Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Vital Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Vermilion Energy received 333 more outperform votes than Vital Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.83% of users gave Vermilion Energy an outperform vote while only 37.50% of users gave Vital Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Vital Energy beats Vermilion Energy on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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