WTI vs. SD, BRY, PHX, EGY, SBOW, GFR, GTE, AMPY, PNRG, and GPRK Should you be buying W&T Offshore stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of W&T Offshore include SandRidge Energy (SD), Berry (BRY), PHX Minerals (PHX), VAALCO Energy (EGY), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), Greenfire Resources (GFR), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Amplify Energy (AMPY), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), and GeoPark (GPRK). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
SandRidge Energy (NYSE:SD ) and W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI ) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
W&T Offshore has a consensus price target of $7.80, indicating a potential upside of 231.91%. Given SandRidge Energy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe W&T Offshore is more favorable than SandRidge Energy.
SandRidge Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. W&T Offshore pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. SandRidge Energy pays out 33.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. W&T Offshore pays out -26.7% 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. SandRidge Energy has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. SandRidge Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
SandRidge Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than W&T Offshore. W&T Offshore is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SandRidge Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SandRidge Energy has a beta of 2.16, suggesting that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, W&T Offshore has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SandRidge Energy has a net margin of 35.52% compared to SandRidge Energy's net margin of -4.04%. W&T Offshore's return on equity of 11.41% beat SandRidge Energy's return on equity.
SandRidge Energy received 11 more outperform votes than W&T Offshore when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.92% of users gave W&T Offshore an outperform vote while only 51.16% of users gave SandRidge Energy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, W&T Offshore had 4 more articles in the media than SandRidge Energy. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for W&T Offshore and 1 mentions for SandRidge Energy. W&T Offshore's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat SandRidge Energy's score of -0.07 indicating that SandRidge Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
61.8% of SandRidge Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.9% of W&T Offshore shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of SandRidge Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.5% of W&T Offshore shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary SandRidge Energy beats W&T Offshore on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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