Caspian Sunrise (CASP) Competitors

Caspian Sunrise (LON:CASP) and EnQuest (LON:ENQ) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and profitability.

Is CASP or ENQ more profitable?

Caspian Sunrise has a net margin of 14.88% compared to EnQuest's net margin of 1.59%. Caspian Sunrise's return on equity of 10.37% beat EnQuest's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Caspian Sunrise	14.88%	10.37%	4.65%
EnQuest	1.59%	4.36%	7.54%

Do analysts prefer CASP or ENQ?

EnQuest has a consensus target price of GBX 27, suggesting a potential upside of 123.88%. Given EnQuest's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe EnQuest is more favorable than Caspian Sunrise.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Caspian Sunrise	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
EnQuest	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of CASP or ENQ?

0.2% of Caspian Sunrise shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.1% of EnQuest shares are owned by institutional investors. 75.1% of Caspian Sunrise shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.3% of EnQuest shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility and risk, CASP or ENQ?

Caspian Sunrise has a beta of 1.95, indicating that its share price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EnQuest has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor CASP or ENQ?

In the previous week, EnQuest had 1 more articles in the media than Caspian Sunrise. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for EnQuest and 1 mentions for Caspian Sunrise. EnQuest's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Caspian Sunrise's score of 0.34 indicating that EnQuest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Caspian Sunrise	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
EnQuest	0 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, CASP or ENQ?

EnQuest has higher revenue and earnings than Caspian Sunrise.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Caspian Sunrise	£37.87M	1.69	£5.64M	N/A	N/A
EnQuest	£1.30B	0.18	£20.73M	-£0.01	-1,206.00

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CASP or ENQ?

EnQuest received 563 more outperform votes than Caspian Sunrise when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 85.11% of users gave Caspian Sunrise an outperform vote while only 60.21% of users gave EnQuest an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Caspian Sunrise	Outperform Votes 80 85.11%	Underperform Votes 14 14.89%
EnQuest	Outperform Votes 643 60.21%	Underperform Votes 425 39.79%

Summary

EnQuest beats Caspian Sunrise on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.