GeoPark (GPRK) Competitors

Kimbell Royalty Partners (NYSE:KRP) and GeoPark (NYSE:GPRK) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Is KRP or GPRK a better dividend stock?

Kimbell Royalty Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. GeoPark pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Kimbell Royalty Partners pays out -1,454.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GeoPark pays out 32.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Kimbell Royalty Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do analysts prefer KRP or GPRK?

Kimbell Royalty Partners presently has a consensus target price of $17.80, suggesting a potential upside of 43.53%. GeoPark has a consensus target price of $12.50, suggesting a potential upside of 89.80%. Given GeoPark's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe GeoPark is more favorable than Kimbell Royalty Partners.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Kimbell Royalty Partners	1 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
GeoPark	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in KRP or GPRK?

GeoPark received 31 more outperform votes than Kimbell Royalty Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.67% of users gave Kimbell Royalty Partners an outperform vote while only 68.64% of users gave GeoPark an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Kimbell Royalty Partners	Outperform Votes 306 70.67%	Underperform Votes 127 29.33%
GeoPark	Outperform Votes 337 68.64%	Underperform Votes 154 31.36%

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, KRP or GPRK?

GeoPark has higher revenue and earnings than Kimbell Royalty Partners. Kimbell Royalty Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GeoPark, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Kimbell Royalty Partners	$310.65M	4.27	$66.54M	-$0.11	-112.75
GeoPark	$661M	0.51	$111.07M	$1.80	3.66

Does the media prefer KRP or GPRK?

In the previous week, Kimbell Royalty Partners had 1 more articles in the media than GeoPark. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Kimbell Royalty Partners and 8 mentions for GeoPark. GeoPark's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Kimbell Royalty Partners' score of 0.82 indicating that GeoPark is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Kimbell Royalty Partners	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
GeoPark	5 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do institutionals and insiders believe in KRP or GPRK?

25.8% of Kimbell Royalty Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.2% of GeoPark shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.6% of Kimbell Royalty Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of GeoPark shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has more risk and volatility, KRP or GPRK?

Kimbell Royalty Partners has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GeoPark has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is KRP or GPRK more profitable?

GeoPark has a net margin of 14.97% compared to Kimbell Royalty Partners' net margin of 11.33%. GeoPark's return on equity of 57.93% beat Kimbell Royalty Partners' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Kimbell Royalty Partners	11.33%	5.82%	3.05%
GeoPark	14.97%	57.93%	10.60%

Summary

GeoPark beats Kimbell Royalty Partners on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.