PetroTal (PTAL) Competitors

PetroTal (LON:PTAL) and Seplat Energy (LON:SEPL) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and risk.

Which has more risk and volatility, PTAL or SEPL?

PetroTal has a beta of 1.9, meaning that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seplat Energy has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, PTAL or SEPL?

PetroTal has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Seplat Energy. PetroTal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seplat Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PetroTal	£415.33M	1.02	£132.43M	£9.22	4.03
Seplat Energy	£1.16B	1.12	£99.56M	£11.03	16.14

Is PTAL or SEPL more profitable?

PetroTal has a net margin of 31.88% compared to Seplat Energy's net margin of 8.59%. PetroTal's return on equity of 22.73% beat Seplat Energy's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PetroTal	31.88%	22.73%	17.91%
Seplat Energy	8.59%	4.57%	5.52%

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in PTAL or SEPL?

16.1% of PetroTal shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.0% of Seplat Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.4% of PetroTal shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Seplat Energy 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PTAL or SEPL?

Seplat Energy received 37 more outperform votes than PetroTal when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 87.80% of users gave PetroTal an outperform vote while only 66.36% of users gave Seplat Energy an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
PetroTal	Outperform Votes 36 87.80%	Underperform Votes 5 12.20%
Seplat Energy	Outperform Votes 73 66.36%	Underperform Votes 37 33.64%

Is PTAL or SEPL a better dividend stock?

PetroTal pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.5%. Seplat Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. PetroTal pays out 54.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Seplat Energy pays out 81.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PetroTal is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the media favor PTAL or SEPL?

In the previous week, Seplat Energy had 4 more articles in the media than PetroTal. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Seplat Energy and 0 mentions for PetroTal. Seplat Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat PetroTal's score of 0.00 indicating that Seplat Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
PetroTal	Neutral
Seplat Energy	Positive

Summary

PetroTal beats Seplat Energy on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.