QEC vs. RECO, SNM, JOY, IPO, BNE, GXE, ALV, KEI, PRQ, and HME
Should you be buying Questerre Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Questerre Energy include Reconnaissance Energy Africa (RECO), ShaMaran Petroleum (SNM), Journey Energy (JOY), InPlay Oil (IPO), Bonterra Energy (BNE), Gear Energy (GXE), Alvopetro Energy (ALV), Kolibri Global Energy (KEI), Petrus Resources (PRQ), and Hemisphere Energy (HME). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Reconnaissance Energy Africa (CVE:RECO) and Questerre Energy (TSE:QEC) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
0.1% of Reconnaissance Energy Africa shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.4% of Questerre Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Reconnaissance Energy Africa shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Questerre Energy 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.
Reconnaissance Energy Africa has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Questerre Energy. Reconnaissance Energy Africa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Questerre Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Reconnaissance Energy Africa has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Questerre Energy has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Questerre Energy received 116 more outperform votes than Reconnaissance Energy Africa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.05% of users gave Questerre Energy an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Reconnaissance Energy Africa an outperform vote.
Reconnaissance Energy Africa has a net margin of 542.82% compared to Reconnaissance Energy Africa's net margin of -71.36%. Reconnaissance Energy Africa's return on equity of -15.94% beat Questerre Energy's return on equity.
In the previous week, Reconnaissance Energy Africa had 2 more articles in the media than Questerre Energy. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Reconnaissance Energy Africa and 0 mentions for Questerre Energy. Reconnaissance Energy Africa's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Questerre Energy's score of 0.54 indicating that Questerre Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Questerre Energy beats Reconnaissance Energy Africa on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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