PHX Minerals (PHX) Competitors

SandRidge Energy (NYSE:SD) and PHX Minerals (NYSE:PHX) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation and risk.

Which has better valuation and earnings, SD or PHX?

SandRidge Energy has higher revenue and earnings than PHX Minerals. SandRidge Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PHX Minerals, 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
SandRidge Energy	$125.29M	3.33	$60.86M	$1.70	6.60
PHX Minerals	$34.27M	4.52	$13.92M	$0.06	68.08

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of SD or PHX?

61.8% of SandRidge Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.2% of PHX Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of SandRidge Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of PHX Minerals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Is SD or PHX a better dividend stock?

SandRidge Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. PHX Minerals pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. SandRidge Energy pays out 25.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PHX Minerals pays out 266.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SandRidge Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is SD or PHX more profitable?

SandRidge Energy has a net margin of 39.25% compared to PHX Minerals' net margin of 12.33%. SandRidge Energy's return on equity of 7.92% beat PHX Minerals' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SandRidge Energy	39.25%	7.92%	6.34%
PHX Minerals	12.33%	4.16%	3.12%

Which has more risk and volatility, SD or PHX?

SandRidge Energy has a beta of 2.03, indicating that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PHX Minerals has a beta of 0.51, indicating that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SD or PHX?

SandRidge Energy received 23 more outperform votes than PHX Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.16% of users gave PHX Minerals an outperform vote while only 51.16% of users gave SandRidge Energy an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
SandRidge Energy	Outperform Votes 286 51.16%	Underperform Votes 273 48.84%
PHX Minerals	Outperform Votes 263 61.16%	Underperform Votes 167 38.84%

Does the media favor SD or PHX?

In the previous week, PHX Minerals had 2 more articles in the media than SandRidge Energy. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for PHX Minerals and 0 mentions for SandRidge Energy. SandRidge Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.85 beat PHX Minerals' score of 1.16 indicating that SandRidge Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
SandRidge Energy	Very Positive
PHX Minerals	Positive

Summary

SandRidge Energy beats PHX Minerals on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.