Texas Pacific Land (NYSE:TPL – Get Free Report) and Greenfire Resources (NYSE:GFR – Get Free Report) are both energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Texas Pacific Land and Greenfire Resources”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Texas Pacific Land | $705.82 million | 40.43 | $453.96 million | $6.90 | 59.99 |
| Greenfire Resources | $600.67 million | 0.70 | $88.61 million | $1.35 | 4.45 |
Profitability
This table compares Texas Pacific Land and Greenfire Resources’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Texas Pacific Land | 61.68% | 38.15% | 34.45% |
| Greenfire Resources | 20.20% | 15.64% | 10.47% |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
59.9% of Texas Pacific Land shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.9% of Greenfire Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Texas Pacific Land shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Greenfire Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Texas Pacific Land and Greenfire Resources, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Texas Pacific Land | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Greenfire Resources | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
Texas Pacific Land currently has a consensus target price of $350.00, indicating a potential downside of 15.45%. Given Texas Pacific Land’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Texas Pacific Land is more favorable than Greenfire Resources.
Volatility & Risk
Texas Pacific Land has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greenfire Resources has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Texas Pacific Land beats Greenfire Resources on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Texas Pacific Land
Texas Pacific Land Corporation engages in the land and resource management, and water services and operations businesses. The company owns a 1/128th nonparticipating perpetual oil and gas royalty interest (NPRI) under approximately 85,000 acres of land; a 1/16th NPRI under approximately 371,000 acres of land; and approximately 4,000 additional net royalty acres, total of approximately 195,000 NRA located in the western part of Texas. The Land and Resource Management segment manages surface acres of land, and oil and gas royalty interest in West Texas. This segment also engages in easements, such as transporting oil, gas and related hydrocarbons, power line and utility, and subsurface wellbore easements. In addition, this segment leases its land for processing, storage, and compression facilities and roads; and is involved in sale of materials, such as caliche, sand, and other material, as well as sells land. The Water Services and Operations segment provides full-service water offerings, including water sourcing, produced-water treatment, infrastructure development, and disposal solutions to operators in the Permian Basin. This segment also holds produced water royalties. Texas Pacific Land Corporation was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
About Greenfire Resources
Greenfire Resources Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, exploration, and operation of oil and gas properties in the Athabasca oil sands region of Alberta. The company operates the Tier-1 oil sands assets located in Western Canada. It utilizes steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) extraction technology, a situ thermal oil recovery process to recover diluted and non- diluted bitumen. The company is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
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