PNRG vs. MR, DEC, VTS, TXO, EGY, REPX, GPRK, BRY, SD, and TTI
Should you be buying PrimeEnergy Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PrimeEnergy Resources include Montage Resources (MR), Diversified Energy (DEC), Vitesse Energy (VTS), TXO Partners (TXO), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Riley Exploration Permian (REPX), GeoPark (GPRK), Berry (BRY), SandRidge Energy (SD), and TETRA Technologies (TTI). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Montage Resources (NYSE:MR) and PrimeEnergy Resources (NASDAQ:PNRG) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Montage Resources has higher revenue and earnings than PrimeEnergy Resources. Montage Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PrimeEnergy Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PrimeEnergy Resources had 2 more articles in the media than Montage Resources. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for PrimeEnergy Resources and 2 mentions for Montage Resources. Montage Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat PrimeEnergy Resources' score of 0.00 indicating that PrimeEnergy Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Montage Resources received 63 more outperform votes than PrimeEnergy Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.32% of users gave PrimeEnergy Resources an outperform vote while only 61.35% of users gave Montage Resources an outperform vote.
71.0% of Montage Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Montage Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 61.1% of PrimeEnergy Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Montage Resources has a beta of 3.91, indicating that its share price is 291% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PrimeEnergy Resources has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PrimeEnergy Resources has a net margin of 26.50% compared to PrimeEnergy Resources' net margin of -8.49%. Montage Resources' return on equity of 24.03% beat PrimeEnergy Resources' return on equity.
Summary
PrimeEnergy Resources beats Montage Resources on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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