BSM vs. OVV, PR, CHK, APA, AR, RRC, SWN, HESM, MTDR, and CHRD
Should you be buying Black Stone Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Black Stone Minerals include Ovintiv (OVV), Permian Resources (PR), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), APA (APA), Antero Resources (AR), Range Resources (RRC), Southwestern Energy (SWN), Hess Midstream (HESM), Matador Resources (MTDR), and Chord Energy (CHRD). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Ovintiv (NYSE:OVV) and Black Stone Minerals (NYSE:BSM) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Ovintiv currently has a consensus target price of $57.56, indicating a potential upside of 11.40%. Black Stone Minerals has a consensus target price of $19.33, indicating a potential upside of 20.01%. Given Ovintiv's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Black Stone Minerals is more favorable than Ovintiv.
In the previous week, Ovintiv had 19 more articles in the media than Black Stone Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Ovintiv and 1 mentions for Black Stone Minerals. Ovintiv's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Black Stone Minerals' score of 0.56 indicating that Black Stone Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Black Stone Minerals received 154 more outperform votes than Ovintiv when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.33% of users gave Black Stone Minerals an outperform vote while only 49.82% of users gave Ovintiv an outperform vote.
Black Stone Minerals has a net margin of 66.29% compared to Black Stone Minerals' net margin of 18.12%. Ovintiv's return on equity of 38.71% beat Black Stone Minerals' return on equity.
83.8% of Ovintiv shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.5% of Black Stone Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Ovintiv shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.6% of Black Stone Minerals shares are held by company 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.
Ovintiv has higher revenue and earnings than Black Stone Minerals. Ovintiv is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Black Stone Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ovintiv has a beta of 2.64, meaning that its share price is 164% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Black Stone Minerals has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ovintiv pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Black Stone Minerals pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. Ovintiv pays out 16.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Black Stone Minerals pays out 97.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ovintiv has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Black Stone Minerals has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Summary
Black Stone Minerals beats Ovintiv on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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