BSM vs. OVV, PR, CHK, APA, AR, RRC, SWN, HESM, MTDR, and CHRD
Should you be buying Black Stone Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Black Stone Minerals include Ovintiv (OVV), Permian Resources (PR), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), APA (APA), Antero Resources (AR), Range Resources (RRC), Southwestern Energy (SWN), Hess Midstream (HESM), Matador Resources (MTDR), and Chord Energy (CHRD). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Black Stone Minerals (NYSE:BSM) and Ovintiv (NYSE:OVV) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
Black Stone Minerals received 154 more outperform votes than Ovintiv when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.33% of users gave Black Stone Minerals an outperform vote while only 49.82% of users gave Ovintiv an outperform vote.
Black Stone Minerals presently has a consensus price target of $19.33, indicating a potential upside of 20.01%. Ovintiv has a consensus price target of $57.56, indicating a potential upside of 11.40%. Given Black Stone Minerals' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Black Stone Minerals is more favorable than Ovintiv.
Ovintiv has higher revenue and earnings than Black Stone Minerals. Ovintiv is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Black Stone Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ovintiv had 20 more articles in the media than Black Stone Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Ovintiv and 1 mentions for Black Stone Minerals. Black Stone Minerals' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Ovintiv's score of 0.53 indicating that Black Stone Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Black Stone Minerals pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. Ovintiv pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Black Stone Minerals pays out 97.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ovintiv pays out 16.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Black Stone Minerals has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ovintiv has a beta of 2.64, meaning that its stock price is 164% more volatile than the S&P 500.
14.5% of Black Stone Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Ovintiv shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.6% of Black Stone Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Ovintiv shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Black Stone Minerals has a net margin of 66.29% compared to Ovintiv's net margin of 18.12%. Black Stone Minerals' return on equity of 38.71% beat Ovintiv's return on equity.
Summary
Black Stone Minerals beats Ovintiv on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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