IPO vs. SGY, CEI, LGN, SEI, TNZ, SNM, GTE, PNE, KEI, and RECO
Should you be buying InPlay Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of InPlay Oil include Surge Energy (SGY), Coelacanth Energy (CEI), Logan Energy (LGN), Sintana Energy (SEI), Tenaz Energy (TNZ), ShaMaran Petroleum (SNM), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Pine Cliff Energy (PNE), Kolibri Global Energy (KEI), and Reconnaissance Energy Africa (RECO). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
InPlay Oil vs.
InPlay Oil (TSE:IPO) and Surge Energy (TSE:SGY) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
InPlay Oil has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Surge Energy. Surge Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than InPlay Oil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
InPlay Oil presently has a consensus target price of C$3.25, suggesting a potential upside of 90.06%. Surge Energy has a consensus target price of C$11.10, suggesting a potential upside of 87.50%. Given InPlay Oil's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe InPlay Oil is more favorable than Surge Energy.
InPlay Oil pays an annual dividend of C$0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.5%. Surge Energy pays an annual dividend of C$0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. InPlay Oil pays out 62.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Surge Energy pays out 32.1% 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.
InPlay Oil has a beta of 2.37, indicating that its stock price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Surge Energy has a beta of 2.54, indicating that its stock price is 154% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Surge Energy received 169 more outperform votes than InPlay Oil when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.19% of users gave Surge Energy an outperform vote while only 64.73% of users gave InPlay Oil an outperform vote.
1.5% of InPlay Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.2% of Surge Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.3% of InPlay Oil shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Surge Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Surge Energy had 1 more articles in the media than InPlay Oil. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Surge Energy and 2 mentions for InPlay Oil. Surge Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat InPlay Oil's score of 0.80 indicating that Surge Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
InPlay Oil has a net margin of 17.18% compared to Surge Energy's net margin of -14.28%. InPlay Oil's return on equity of 9.08% beat Surge Energy's return on equity.
Summary
Surge Energy beats InPlay Oil on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:IPO) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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