PPR vs. IPO, BNE, QEC, GXE, ALV, LCX, JOY, YGR, CNE, and HAM
Should you be buying Prairie Provident Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prairie Provident Resources include InPlay Oil (IPO), Bonterra Energy (BNE), Questerre Energy (QEC), Gear Energy (GXE), Alvopetro Energy (ALV), Lycos Energy (LCX), Journey Energy (JOY), Yangarra Resources (YGR), Canacol Energy (CNE), and Highwood Asset Management (HAM). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Prairie Provident Resources vs.
InPlay Oil (TSE:IPO) and Prairie Provident Resources (TSE:PPR) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and earnings.
1.5% of InPlay Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of Prairie Provident Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.3% of InPlay Oil shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 77.5% of Prairie Provident Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
InPlay Oil has a net margin of 12.95% compared to Prairie Provident Resources' net margin of -56.01%. InPlay Oil's return on equity of 6.41% beat Prairie Provident Resources' return on equity.
InPlay Oil pays an annual dividend of C$0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.0%. Prairie Provident Resources pays an annual dividend of C$0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 228.6%. InPlay Oil pays out 85.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Prairie Provident Resources pays out -200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Prairie Provident Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
InPlay Oil has higher revenue and earnings than Prairie Provident Resources. Prairie Provident Resources 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 has a beta of 2.37, indicating that its share price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prairie Provident Resources has a beta of 2.52, indicating that its share price is 152% more volatile than the S&P 500.
InPlay Oil presently has a consensus price target of C$3.25, indicating a potential upside of 98.17%. Given InPlay Oil's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe InPlay Oil is more favorable than Prairie Provident Resources.
In the previous week, InPlay Oil had 7 more articles in the media than Prairie Provident Resources. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for InPlay Oil and 0 mentions for Prairie Provident Resources. InPlay Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Prairie Provident Resources' score of 0.00 indicating that InPlay Oil is being referred to more favorably in the media.
InPlay Oil received 54 more outperform votes than Prairie Provident Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.38% of users gave Prairie Provident Resources an outperform vote while only 64.73% of users gave InPlay Oil an outperform vote.
Summary
InPlay Oil beats Prairie Provident Resources on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:PPR) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
