USEG vs. MVO, BATL, PED, PRT, PVL, INDO, BRN, MXC, HUSA, and EC
Should you be buying U.S. Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Energy include MV Oil Trust (MVO), Battalion Oil (BATL), PEDEVCO (PED), PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), Indonesia Energy (INDO), Barnwell Industries (BRN), Mexco Energy (MXC), Houston American Energy (HUSA), and Ecopetrol (EC). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
MV Oil Trust (NYSE:MVO) and U.S. Energy (NASDAQ:USEG) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and earnings.
In the previous week, U.S. Energy had 7 more articles in the media than MV Oil Trust. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for U.S. Energy and 1 mentions for MV Oil Trust. U.S. Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat MV Oil Trust's score of 0.48 indicating that MV Oil Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MV Oil Trust has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Energy has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MV Oil Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than U.S. Energy. U.S. Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MV Oil Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MV Oil Trust has a net margin of 94.48% compared to MV Oil Trust's net margin of -138.09%. U.S. Energy's return on equity of 0.00% beat MV Oil Trust's return on equity.
3.5% of MV Oil Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.0% of U.S. Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 70.9% of U.S. Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
U.S. Energy received 29 more outperform votes than MV Oil Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.97% of users gave MV Oil Trust an outperform vote while only 55.14% of users gave U.S. Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
MV Oil Trust beats U.S. Energy on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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