Prairie Provident Resources (PPR) Competitors

Prairie Provident Resources (TSE:PPR) and Highwood Asset Management (CVE:HAM) 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, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Do analysts prefer PPR or HAM?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Prairie Provident Resources	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Highwood Asset Management	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.50

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in PPR or HAM?

0.2% of Prairie Provident Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.0% of Highwood Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 77.5% of Prairie Provident Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 54.0% of Highwood Asset Management shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility & risk, PPR or HAM?

Prairie Provident Resources has a beta of 2.52, suggesting that its stock price is 152% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Highwood Asset Management has a beta of -0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 190% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PPR or HAM?

Prairie Provident Resources received 100 more outperform votes than Highwood Asset Management when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Highwood Asset Management an outperform vote while only 65.38% of users gave Prairie Provident Resources an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Prairie Provident Resources	Outperform Votes 102 65.38%	Underperform Votes 54 34.62%
Highwood Asset Management	Outperform Votes 2 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes

Is PPR or HAM more profitable?

Highwood Asset Management has a net margin of 63.50% compared to Prairie Provident Resources' net margin of -56.01%. Highwood Asset Management's return on equity of 91.31% beat Prairie Provident Resources' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Prairie Provident Resources	-56.01%	N/A	-0.64%
Highwood Asset Management	63.50%	91.31%	15.54%

Does the media favor PPR or HAM?

In the previous week, Highwood Asset Management had 9 more articles in the media than Prairie Provident Resources. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Highwood Asset Management and 0 mentions for Prairie Provident Resources. Highwood Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Prairie Provident Resources' score of 0.00 indicating that Highwood Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Prairie Provident Resources	Neutral
Highwood Asset Management	Neutral

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, PPR or HAM?

Highwood Asset Management has higher revenue and earnings than Prairie Provident Resources. Prairie Provident Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Highwood Asset Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Prairie Provident Resources	C$54.09M	0.43	-C$30.30M	-C$0.04	-0.63
Highwood Asset Management	C$89.30M	1.01	C$56.70M	C$5.43	1.12

Summary

Highwood Asset Management beats Prairie Provident Resources on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.