DMLP vs. QEP, KRP, BCEI, GPRK, BRY, MGY, SSL, VIST, ERF, and NOG
Should you be buying Dorchester Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dorchester Minerals include QEP Resources (QEP), Kimbell Royalty Partners (KRP), Bonanza Creek Energy (BCEI), GeoPark (GPRK), Berry (BRY), Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY), Sasol (SSL), Vista Energy (VIST), Enerplus (ERF), and Northern Oil and Gas (NOG). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Dorchester Minerals (NASDAQ:DMLP) and QEP Resources (NYSE:QEP) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, earnings and community ranking.
Dorchester Minerals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than QEP Resources. QEP Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dorchester Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dorchester Minerals pays an annual dividend of $3.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.5%. QEP Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Dorchester Minerals pays out 121.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. QEP Resources pays out -800.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Dorchester Minerals has a net margin of 66.57% compared to QEP Resources' net margin of 2.77%. Dorchester Minerals' return on equity of 59.35% beat QEP Resources' return on equity.
Dorchester Minerals has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QEP Resources has a beta of 5.24, meaning that its stock price is 424% more volatile than the S&P 500.
QEP Resources received 341 more outperform votes than Dorchester Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.55% of users gave Dorchester Minerals an outperform vote while only 58.68% of users gave QEP Resources an outperform vote.
19.2% of Dorchester Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.6% of QEP Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.1% of Dorchester Minerals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of QEP Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Dorchester Minerals had 1 more articles in the media than QEP Resources. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Dorchester Minerals and 0 mentions for QEP Resources. Dorchester Minerals' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat QEP Resources' score of 0.00 indicating that Dorchester Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Dorchester Minerals beats QEP Resources on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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