MATD vs. KIST, AET, PHAR, FOG, CASP, ZPHR, SLE, ENW, AEX, and TXP
Should you be buying Petro Matad stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Petro Matad include Kistos (KIST), Afentra (AET), Pharos Energy (PHAR), Falcon Oil & Gas (FOG), Caspian Sunrise (CASP), Zephyr Energy (ZPHR), San Leon Energy (SLE), Enwell Energy (ENW), Aminex (AEX), and Touchstone Exploration (TXP). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Petro Matad vs.
Kistos (LON:KIST) and Petro Matad (LON:MATD) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Kistos has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Petro Matad has a beta of 2.24, meaning that its stock price is 124% more volatile than the S&P 500.
38.2% of Kistos shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Petro Matad shares are held by institutional investors. 31.4% of Kistos shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.1% of Petro Matad shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kistos has a net margin of -25.91% compared to Petro Matad's net margin of -131,797.15%. Petro Matad's return on equity of -33.15% beat Kistos' return on equity.
Kistos currently has a consensus target price of GBX 465, suggesting a potential upside of 234.53%. Given Kistos' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kistos is more favorable than Petro Matad.
Petro Matad has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kistos. Petro Matad is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kistos, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Petro Matad received 117 more outperform votes than Kistos when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Kistos an outperform vote while only 63.59% of users gave Petro Matad an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Kistos had 3 more articles in the media than Petro Matad. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Kistos and 0 mentions for Petro Matad. Kistos' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Petro Matad's score of 0.00 indicating that Kistos is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Kistos beats Petro Matad on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:MATD) was last updated on 3/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff