MTDR vs. EQT, MRO, RRC, SWN, SM, CRK, KOS, SBOW, EGY, and SD
Should you be buying Matador Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Matador Resources include EQT (EQT), Marathon Oil (MRO), Range Resources (RRC), Southwestern Energy (SWN), SM Energy (SM), Comstock Resources (CRK), Kosmos Energy (KOS), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), VAALCO Energy (EGY), and SandRidge Energy (SD). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas exploration & production" industry.
Matador Resources (NYSE:MTDR) and EQT (NYSE:EQT) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk and profitability.
Matador Resources has a net margin of 28.89% compared to EQT's net margin of 10.96%. Matador Resources' return on equity of 20.62% beat EQT's return on equity.
In the previous week, EQT had 2 more articles in the media than Matador Resources. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for EQT and 7 mentions for Matador Resources. Matador Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat EQT's score of 1.17 indicating that Matador Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Matador Resources presently has a consensus target price of $74.80, suggesting a potential upside of 28.85%. EQT has a consensus target price of $45.24, suggesting a potential upside of 11.58%. Given Matador Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Matador Resources is more favorable than EQT.
Matador Resources has a beta of 3.3, meaning that its stock price is 230% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EQT has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
EQT received 109 more outperform votes than Matador Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.20% of users gave Matador Resources an outperform vote while only 68.20% of users gave EQT an outperform vote.
EQT has higher revenue and earnings than Matador Resources. Matador Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EQT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Matador Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. EQT pays an annual dividend of $0.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Matador Resources pays out 11.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. EQT pays out 45.7% 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.
92.0% of Matador Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of EQT shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Matador Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of EQT shares are held by company 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.
Summary
Matador Resources beats EQT on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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