SSL vs. VIST, ERF, NOG, CPG, MGY, CNX, SM, BSM, CRC, and CRK
Should you be buying Sasol stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sasol include Vista Energy (VIST), Enerplus (ERF), Northern Oil and Gas (NOG), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY), CNX Resources (CNX), SM Energy (SM), Black Stone Minerals (BSM), California Resources (CRC), and Comstock Resources (CRK). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Vista Energy (NYSE:VIST) and Sasol (NYSE:SSL) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
Sasol has higher revenue and earnings than Vista Energy.
Vista Energy presently has a consensus target price of $51.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.39%. Given Sasol's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Vista Energy is more favorable than Sasol.
Vista Energy has a net margin of 30.24% compared to Vista Energy's net margin of 0.00%. Sasol's return on equity of 39.92% beat Vista Energy's return on equity.
63.8% of Vista Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.2% of Sasol shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Sasol shares are owned 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, Vista Energy had 6 more articles in the media than Sasol. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Vista Energy and 1 mentions for Sasol. Vista Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Sasol's score of 0.91 indicating that Sasol is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sasol received 344 more outperform votes than Vista Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.99% of users gave Sasol an outperform vote while only 36.84% of users gave Vista Energy an outperform vote.
Vista Energy has a beta of 1.93, indicating that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sasol has a beta of 2.42, indicating that its stock price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Vista Energy beats Sasol on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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