HBR vs. KOS, ENOG, ITH, SEPL, SQZ, TLW, DEC, EGY, PTAL, and GKP
Should you be buying Harbour Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Harbour Energy include Kosmos Energy (KOS), Energean (ENOG), Ithaca Energy (ITH), Seplat Energy (SEPL), Serica Energy (SQZ), Tullow Oil (TLW), Diversified Energy (DEC), VAALCO Energy (EGY), PetroTal (PTAL), and Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Harbour Energy (LON:HBR) and Kosmos Energy (LON:KOS) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Kosmos Energy received 50 more outperform votes than Harbour Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.11% of users gave Kosmos Energy an outperform vote while only 71.74% of users gave Harbour Energy an outperform vote.
Harbour Energy currently has a consensus price target of GBX 330, indicating a potential upside of 0.00%. Kosmos Energy has a consensus price target of GBX 610, indicating a potential upside of 24.49%. Given Kosmos Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kosmos Energy is more favorable than Harbour Energy.
Harbour Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Kosmos Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Harbour Energy pays out 66,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kosmos Energy pays out 3,888.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Kosmos Energy has a net margin of 12.85% compared to Harbour Energy's net margin of 0.85%. Kosmos Energy's return on equity of 22.86% beat Harbour Energy's return on equity.
Harbour Energy has a beta of -0.29, suggesting that its stock price is 129% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kosmos Energy has a beta of 2.37, suggesting that its stock price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Harbour Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Kosmos Energy. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Harbour Energy and 0 mentions for Kosmos Energy. Kosmos Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Harbour Energy's score of 1.16 indicating that Kosmos Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
36.7% of Harbour Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.5% of Kosmos Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.5% of Harbour Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Kosmos Energy shares are owned by 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.
Kosmos Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Harbour Energy. Kosmos Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Harbour Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Kosmos Energy beats Harbour Energy on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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