BRN vs. USEG, MXC, HUSA, INDO, PRT, PVL, PED, BATL, ALCE, and NCNC Should you be buying Barnwell Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barnwell Industries include U.S. Energy (USEG), Mexco Energy (MXC), Houston American Energy (HUSA), Indonesia Energy (INDO), PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), PEDEVCO (PED), Battalion Oil (BATL), Alternus Clean Energy (ALCE), and noco-noco (NCNC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Barnwell Industries (NYSE:BRN ) and U.S. Energy (NASDAQ:USEG ) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
Barnwell Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than U.S. Energy. Barnwell Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than U.S. Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
U.S. Energy received 193 more outperform votes than Barnwell Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.30% of users gave U.S. Energy an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Barnwell Industries an outperform vote.
Barnwell Industries has a net margin of -13.29% compared to U.S. Energy's net margin of -138.09%. Barnwell Industries' return on equity of -18.20% beat U.S. Energy's return on equity.
Barnwell Industries has a beta of 0.15, indicating that its share price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Energy has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
40.7% of Barnwell Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.0% of U.S. Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 17.6% of Barnwell Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 70.9% of U.S. Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, U.S. Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Barnwell Industries. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for U.S. Energy and 4 mentions for Barnwell Industries. U.S. Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Barnwell Industries' score of -0.56 indicating that U.S. Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary U.S. Energy beats Barnwell Industries on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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