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Kosmos Energy (KOS) Competitors

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GBX 159 -16.00 (-9.14%)
As of 11:50 AM Eastern

KOS vs. BPT, GPOR, DEC, IMO, GTE, STR, D4H, MUR, RLD, and BRY

Should you be buying Kosmos Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kosmos Energy include Bridgepoint Group (BPT), Great Portland Estates (GPOR), Diversified Energy (DEC), IMImobile (IMO), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Stride Gaming (STR), Downing FOUR VCT (D4H), Murgitroyd Group (MUR), Richland Resources Ltd (RLD.L) (RLD), and Brady (BRY). These companies are all part of the "petroleum and natural gas" industry.

Kosmos Energy vs.

Bridgepoint Group (LON:BPT) and Kosmos Energy (LON:KOS) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Bridgepoint Group has a beta of 1.72, suggesting that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kosmos Energy has a beta of 2.43, suggesting that its share price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Kosmos Energy had 1 more articles in the media than Bridgepoint Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Kosmos Energy and 0 mentions for Bridgepoint Group. Kosmos Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Bridgepoint Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Kosmos Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Bridgepoint Group Neutral
Kosmos Energy Positive

Bridgepoint Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 359.33, suggesting a potential upside of 16.89%. Given Bridgepoint Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Bridgepoint Group is more favorable than Kosmos Energy.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Bridgepoint Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Kosmos Energy
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

20.4% of Bridgepoint Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.7% of Kosmos Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 20.0% of Bridgepoint Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Kosmos Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Kosmos Energy received 71 more outperform votes than Bridgepoint Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Bridgepoint Group an outperform vote while only 74.11% of users gave Kosmos Energy an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Bridgepoint GroupOutperform Votes
12
80.00%
Underperform Votes
3
20.00%
Kosmos EnergyOutperform Votes
83
74.11%
Underperform Votes
29
25.89%

Bridgepoint Group has a net margin of 16.74% compared to Kosmos Energy's net margin of 12.22%. Kosmos Energy's return on equity of 19.64% beat Bridgepoint Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Bridgepoint Group16.74% 6.10% 3.47%
Kosmos Energy 12.22%19.64%6.82%

Kosmos Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Bridgepoint Group. Kosmos Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bridgepoint Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Bridgepoint Group£272.35M9.32£45.58M£5.5055.84
Kosmos Energy£2.32B0.42£283.21M£35.614.47

Bridgepoint Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Kosmos Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Bridgepoint Group pays out 163.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kosmos Energy pays out 39.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kosmos Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Kosmos Energy beats Bridgepoint Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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KOS vs. The Competition

MetricKosmos EnergyOil & Gas E&P IndustryEnergy SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£974.11M£1.37B£7.42B£2.52B
Dividend Yield18.49%8.22%10.65%4.90%
P/E Ratio4.47184.1746.61134.65
Price / Sales0.42127,655.0828,750.56261,054.88
Price / Cash9.6590.9735.3727.90
Price / Book0.631.423.534.46
Net Income£283.21M£81.39M£4.27B£5.77B
7 Day Performance-11.67%-2.79%-4.00%-1.85%
1 Month Performance-25.00%0.36%-0.54%-2.65%
1 Year PerformanceN/A34.95%146.88%103.94%

Kosmos Energy Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KOS
Kosmos Energy
N/AGBX 159
-9.1%
N/AN/A£974.11M£2.32B4.47240Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
BPT
Bridgepoint Group
N/AGBX 320
-0.3%
GBX 359.33
+12.3%
+26.3%£2.64B£272.35M58.13391Positive News
Gap Up
GPOR
Great Portland Estates
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.87B£100.70M124.66210Gap Up
DEC
Diversified Energy
N/AGBX 1,066
+2.2%
N/A+10.4%£679.81M£945.01M4.411,603Dividend Announcement
IMO
IMImobile
N/AN/AN/AN/A£490.40M£164.04M123.755,300
GTE
Gran Tierra Energy
N/AGBX 373
-3.1%
N/AN/A£170.18M£897.99M3.31340Gap Down
STR
Stride Gaming
N/AN/AN/AN/A£112.95M£78.21M-25.2510
D4H
Downing FOUR VCT
N/AN/AN/AN/A£75.57MN/A950.004
MUR
Murgitroyd Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£62.37M£47.97M20.30690
RLD
Richland Resources Ltd (RLD.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£29.09M£19,000.00-2.602,730Gap Down
BRY
Brady
N/AN/AN/AN/A£15.17M£22.16M-4.921,370Gap Up
High Trading Volume
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This page (LON:KOS) was last updated on 4/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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