DMLP vs. QEP, KRP, BCEI, GPRK, BRY, MGY, SSL, VIST, ERF, and NOG
Should you be buying Dorchester Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dorchester Minerals include QEP Resources (QEP), Kimbell Royalty Partners (KRP), Bonanza Creek Energy (BCEI), GeoPark (GPRK), Berry (BRY), Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY), Sasol (SSL), Vista Energy (VIST), Enerplus (ERF), and Northern Oil and Gas (NOG). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
QEP Resources (NYSE:QEP) and Dorchester Minerals (NASDAQ:DMLP) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Dorchester Minerals had 7 more articles in the media than QEP Resources. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Dorchester Minerals and 0 mentions for QEP Resources. QEP Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Dorchester Minerals' score of 0.00 indicating that Dorchester Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
QEP Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Dorchester Minerals pays an annual dividend of $3.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. QEP Resources pays out -800.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dorchester Minerals pays out 121.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Dorchester Minerals has a net margin of 66.57% compared to Dorchester Minerals' net margin of 2.77%. QEP Resources' return on equity of 59.35% beat Dorchester Minerals' return on equity.
QEP Resources received 341 more outperform votes than Dorchester Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.55% of users gave Dorchester Minerals an outperform vote while only 58.68% of users gave QEP Resources an outperform vote.
Dorchester Minerals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than QEP Resources. QEP Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dorchester Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.6% of QEP Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.2% of Dorchester Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of QEP Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Dorchester Minerals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
QEP Resources has a beta of 5.24, suggesting that its share price is 424% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dorchester Minerals has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Dorchester Minerals beats QEP Resources on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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