SD vs. SBOW, EGY, BRY, WTI, PHX, COP, EOG, PXD, FANG, and DVN
Should you be buying SandRidge Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SandRidge Energy include SilverBow Resources (SBOW), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Berry (BRY), W&T Offshore (WTI), PHX Minerals (PHX), ConocoPhillips (COP), EOG Resources (EOG), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), Diamondback Energy (FANG), and Devon Energy (DVN). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas exploration & production" industry.
SilverBow Resources (NYSE:SBOW) and SandRidge Energy (NYSE:SD) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
SilverBow Resources currently has a consensus target price of $45.33, suggesting a potential upside of 15.65%. Given SandRidge Energy's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe SilverBow Resources is more favorable than SandRidge Energy.
SilverBow Resources has a beta of 2.52, suggesting that its stock price is 152% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SandRidge Energy has a beta of 2.16, suggesting that its stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SandRidge Energy has a net margin of 35.52% compared to SandRidge Energy's net margin of 24.41%. SandRidge Energy's return on equity of 16.48% beat SilverBow Resources' return on equity.
SilverBow Resources has higher revenue and earnings than SandRidge Energy. SilverBow Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SandRidge Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
91.8% of SilverBow Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.8% of SandRidge Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of SilverBow Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of SandRidge Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SandRidge Energy received 32 more outperform votes than SilverBow Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.82% of users gave SilverBow Resources an outperform vote while only 51.16% of users gave SandRidge Energy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, SilverBow Resources had 2 more articles in the media than SandRidge Energy. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for SilverBow Resources and 0 mentions for SandRidge Energy. SandRidge Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat SilverBow Resources' score of 0.00 indicating that SilverBow Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
SilverBow Resources beats SandRidge Energy on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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