DCC vs. HBR, KOS, ENOG, TTE, YCA, NWF, WG, ITH, SEPL, and TGA
Should you be buying DCC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DCC include Harbour Energy (HBR), Kosmos Energy (KOS), Energean (ENOG), TotalEnergies (TTE), Yellow Cake (YCA), NWF Group (NWF), John Wood Group (WG), Ithaca Energy (ITH), Seplat Energy (SEPL), and Thungela Resources (TGA). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Harbour Energy (LON:HBR) and DCC (LON:DCC) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.
In the previous week, DCC had 10 more articles in the media than Harbour Energy. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for DCC and 1 mentions for Harbour Energy. Harbour Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat DCC's score of 0.00 indicating that DCC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Harbour Energy currently has a consensus target price of GBX 330, indicating a potential upside of 5.25%. DCC has a consensus target price of GBX 6,140.50, indicating a potential upside of 3.64%. Given DCC's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Harbour Energy is more favorable than DCC.
DCC has higher revenue and earnings than Harbour Energy. DCC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Harbour Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DCC has a net margin of 1.64% compared to DCC's net margin of 0.85%. Harbour Energy's return on equity of 10.91% beat DCC's return on equity.
35.2% of Harbour Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.5% of DCC shares are held by institutional investors. 33.5% of Harbour Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of DCC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Harbour Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. DCC pays an annual dividend of GBX 197 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. 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. DCC pays out 5,969.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
DCC received 445 more outperform votes than Harbour Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.77% of users gave DCC an outperform vote while only 71.74% of users gave Harbour Energy an outperform vote.
Harbour Energy has a beta of -0.29, meaning that its share price is 129% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DCC has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
DCC beats Harbour Energy on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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