WDS vs. HBR, KOS, ENOG, ITH, SEPL, SQZ, TLW, DEC, EGY, and PTAL
Should you be buying Woodside Energy Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Woodside Energy Group include Harbour Energy (HBR), Kosmos Energy (KOS), Energean (ENOG), Ithaca Energy (ITH), Seplat Energy (SEPL), Serica Energy (SQZ), Tullow Oil (TLW), Diversified Energy (DEC), VAALCO Energy (EGY), and PetroTal (PTAL). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Harbour Energy (LON:HBR) and Woodside Energy Group (LON:WDS) are both energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
Harbour Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Woodside Energy Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 110 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. Harbour Energy pays out 66,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Woodside Energy Group pays out 16,176.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Woodside Energy Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Harbour Energy has a beta of -0.29, indicating that its share price is 129% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Woodside Energy Group has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Harbour Energy currently has a consensus price target of GBX 330, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. Given Woodside Energy Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Harbour Energy is more favorable than Woodside Energy Group.
Woodside Energy Group has higher revenue and earnings than Harbour Energy. Woodside Energy Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Harbour Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
36.7% of Harbour Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.4% of Woodside Energy Group shares are held by institutional investors. 33.5% of Harbour Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Woodside Energy Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Harbour Energy received 33 more outperform votes than Woodside Energy Group when rated by MarketBeat users.
Woodside Energy Group has a net margin of 11.86% compared to Woodside Energy Group's net margin of 0.85%. Harbour Energy's return on equity of 4.76% beat Woodside Energy Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Harbour Energy had 2 more articles in the media than Woodside Energy Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Harbour Energy and 1 mentions for Woodside Energy Group. Harbour Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat Woodside Energy Group's score of 1.16 indicating that Woodside Energy Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Woodside Energy Group beats Harbour Energy on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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