EPSN vs. MVO, PHX, BATL, PED, PROP, PVL, PRT, INDO, PNRG, and USEG Should you be buying Epsilon Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Epsilon Energy include MV Oil Trust (MVO), PHX Minerals (PHX), Battalion Oil (BATL), PEDEVCO (PED), Prairie Operating (PROP), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT), Indonesia Energy (INDO), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), and U.S. Energy (USEG). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Epsilon Energy (NASDAQ:EPSN ) and MV Oil Trust (NYSE:MVO ) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and valuation.
60.3% of Epsilon Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.5% of MV Oil Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Epsilon Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
MV Oil Trust received 148 more outperform votes than Epsilon Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.54% of users gave Epsilon Energy an outperform vote while only 60.97% of users gave MV Oil Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Epsilon Energy had 2 more articles in the media than MV Oil Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Epsilon Energy and 0 mentions for MV Oil Trust. MV Oil Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Epsilon Energy's score of 0.67 indicating that MV Oil Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Epsilon Energy has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MV Oil Trust has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Epsilon Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. MV Oil Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. Epsilon Energy pays out 108.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MV Oil Trust pays out 86.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MV Oil Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
MV Oil Trust has a net margin of 94.48% compared to Epsilon Energy's net margin of 16.77%. Epsilon Energy's return on equity of 4.89% beat MV Oil Trust's return on equity.
MV Oil Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Epsilon Energy. MV Oil Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Epsilon Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary MV Oil Trust beats Epsilon Energy on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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