BATL vs. WTI, GTE, AMPY, PNRG, PROP, PHX, EPSN, MVO, PED, and PRT
Should you be buying Battalion Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Battalion Oil include W&T Offshore (WTI), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Amplify Energy (AMPY), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), Prairie Operating (PROP), PHX Minerals (PHX), Epsilon Energy (EPSN), MV Oil Trust (MVO), PEDEVCO (PED), and PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Battalion Oil (NYSE:BATL) and W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.
W&T Offshore has higher revenue and earnings than Battalion Oil. W&T Offshore is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Battalion Oil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
W&T Offshore has a net margin of -4.04% compared to Battalion Oil's net margin of -27.77%. Battalion Oil's return on equity of -70.13% beat W&T Offshore's return on equity.
86.0% of Battalion Oil shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.9% of W&T Offshore shares are held by institutional investors. 56.9% of Battalion Oil shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.5% of W&T Offshore shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Battalion Oil currently has a consensus price target of $18.60, indicating a potential upside of 219.04%. W&T Offshore has a consensus price target of $7.80, indicating a potential upside of 249.78%. Given W&T Offshore's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe W&T Offshore is more favorable than Battalion Oil.
Battalion Oil has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, W&T Offshore has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, W&T Offshore had 7 more articles in the media than Battalion Oil. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for W&T Offshore and 0 mentions for Battalion Oil. Battalion Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat W&T Offshore's score of -0.24 indicating that Battalion Oil is being referred to more favorably in the media.
W&T Offshore received 274 more outperform votes than Battalion Oil when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.92% of users gave W&T Offshore an outperform vote while only 16.67% of users gave Battalion Oil an outperform vote.
Summary
W&T Offshore beats Battalion Oil on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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