PHX vs. WTI, COP, EOG, PXD, FANG, DVN, EQT, MRO, RRC, and SWN
Should you be buying PHX Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PHX Minerals include W&T Offshore (WTI), ConocoPhillips (COP), EOG Resources (EOG), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Devon Energy (DVN), EQT (EQT), Marathon Oil (MRO), Range Resources (RRC), and Southwestern Energy (SWN). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas exploration & production" industry.
W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI) and PHX Minerals (NYSE:PHX) 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 risk, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
W&T Offshore currently has a consensus target price of $7.80, indicating a potential upside of 249.78%. PHX Minerals has a consensus target price of $5.20, indicating a potential upside of 60.00%. Given PHX Minerals' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe W&T Offshore is more favorable than PHX Minerals.
W&T Offshore pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. PHX Minerals pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. W&T Offshore pays out -26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PHX Minerals pays out 109.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PHX Minerals has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. PHX Minerals is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
PHX Minerals has a net margin of 11.50% compared to PHX Minerals' net margin of -4.04%. W&T Offshore's return on equity of 3.90% beat PHX Minerals' return on equity.
W&T Offshore received 12 more outperform votes than PHX Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.99% of users gave PHX Minerals an outperform vote while only 53.92% of users gave W&T Offshore an outperform vote.
In the previous week, W&T Offshore had 4 more articles in the media than PHX Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for W&T Offshore and 3 mentions for PHX Minerals. W&T Offshore's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat PHX Minerals' score of -0.24 indicating that PHX Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
W&T Offshore has higher revenue and earnings than PHX Minerals. W&T Offshore is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PHX Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
42.9% of W&T Offshore shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.2% of PHX Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 33.5% of W&T Offshore shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of PHX Minerals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
W&T Offshore has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PHX Minerals has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PHX Minerals beats W&T Offshore on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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