PED vs. GTE, AMPY, PNRG, PHX, EPSN, MVO, BATL, PVL, INDO, and BRN
Should you be buying PEDEVCO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PEDEVCO include Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Amplify Energy (AMPY), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), PHX Minerals (PHX), Epsilon Energy (EPSN), MV Oil Trust (MVO), Battalion Oil (BATL), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), Indonesia Energy (INDO), and Barnwell Industries (BRN). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
PEDEVCO (NYSE:PED) and Gran Tierra Energy (NYSE:GTE) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
PEDEVCO has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gran Tierra Energy. Gran Tierra Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PEDEVCO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PEDEVCO has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gran Tierra Energy has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gran Tierra Energy has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.53%. Given Gran Tierra Energy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gran Tierra Energy is more favorable than PEDEVCO.
PEDEVCO has a net margin of 3.99% compared to Gran Tierra Energy's net margin of 0.51%. PEDEVCO's return on equity of 1.31% beat Gran Tierra Energy's return on equity.
3.3% of PEDEVCO shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.7% of Gran Tierra Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 71.1% of PEDEVCO shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Gran Tierra Energy shares are owned 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, Gran Tierra Energy had 3 more articles in the media than PEDEVCO. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Gran Tierra Energy and 2 mentions for PEDEVCO. Gran Tierra Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat PEDEVCO's score of 0.00 indicating that Gran Tierra Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gran Tierra Energy received 1 more outperform votes than PEDEVCO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 100.00% of users gave Gran Tierra Energy an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave PEDEVCO an outperform vote.
Summary
Gran Tierra Energy beats PEDEVCO on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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