AST vs. CHAR, IGAS, SEA, SOU, PMG, ZEN, SNDA, UPL, ANGS, and INDI
Should you be buying Ascent Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ascent Resources include Chariot (CHAR), IGas Energy (IGAS), Seascape Energy Asia (SEA), Sound Energy (SOU), The Parkmead Group (PMG), Zenith Energy (ZEN), Sunda Energy (SNDA), Upland Resources (UPL), Angus Energy (ANGS), and Indus Gas (INDI). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Ascent Resources vs.
Chariot (LON:CHAR) and Ascent Resources (LON:AST) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.
Ascent Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Chariot. Chariot is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ascent Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chariot has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ascent Resources has a beta of 0.01, indicating that its stock price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chariot's return on equity of -26.42% beat Ascent Resources' return on equity.
18.8% of Chariot shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.8% of Ascent Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.5% of Chariot shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 57.8% of Ascent Resources 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, Chariot had 3 more articles in the media than Ascent Resources. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Chariot and 0 mentions for Ascent Resources. Chariot's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Ascent Resources' score of 0.00 indicating that Chariot is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Chariot received 183 more outperform votes than Ascent Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.73% of users gave Ascent Resources an outperform vote while only 54.77% of users gave Chariot an outperform vote.
Summary
Chariot beats Ascent Resources on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:AST) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
