Financial Review: Uranium Royalty (NASDAQ:UROY) & ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM)

ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) and Uranium Royalty (NASDAQ:UROY) are both energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

61.8% of ExxonMobil shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.2% of Uranium Royalty shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of ExxonMobil shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares ExxonMobil and Uranium Royalty’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ExxonMobil	10.24%	16.63%	9.59%
Uranium Royalty	25.88%	10.86%	7.44%

Volatility and Risk

ExxonMobil has a beta of 0.16, indicating that its share price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Uranium Royalty has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for ExxonMobil and Uranium Royalty, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ExxonMobil	1	14	11	1	2.44
Uranium Royalty	0	2	3	0	2.60

ExxonMobil currently has a consensus price target of $170.38, indicating a potential upside of 3.38%. Uranium Royalty has a consensus price target of $4.25, indicating a potential upside of 37.99%. Given Uranium Royalty’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Uranium Royalty is more favorable than ExxonMobil.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares ExxonMobil and Uranium Royalty”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ExxonMobil	$332.24 billion	2.02	$28.84 billion	$9.73	16.94
Uranium Royalty	$214.35 million	5.42	$40.25 million	$0.09	34.22

ExxonMobil has higher revenue and earnings than Uranium Royalty. ExxonMobil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Uranium Royalty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

ExxonMobil beats Uranium Royalty on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Corporation engages in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas in the United States and internationally. It operates through Upstream, Energy Products, Chemical Products, and Specialty Products segments. The Upstream segment explores for and produces crude oil and natural gas. The Energy Products segment offers fuels, aromatics, catalysts, and licensing services. It sells its products under the Exxon, Esso, and Mobil brands. The Chemical Products segment manufactures and markets petrochemicals, including olefins, polyolefins, and intermediates. The Specialty Products segment offers performance products, including lubricants, basestocks, waxes, synthetics, elastomers, and resins. The company is also involved in the manufacturing, trade, transport, and selling crude oil, natural gas, petroleum products, petrochemicals, and other specialty products in pursuit of lower-emission business opportunities, including carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, lower-emission fuels, and lithium. Exxon Mobil Corporation was founded in 1870 and is based in Spring, Texas.

About Uranium Royalty

Uranium Royalty Corp. operates as a pure-play uranium royalty company. It acquires, accumulates, and manages a portfolio of geographically diversified uranium interests. The company has royalty interests in the McArthur River, Cigar Lake / Waterbury Lake, Roughrider, Russell Lake, Russell Lake south, and Dawn Lake projects in Saskatchewan, Canada; Anderson and San Rafael projects in Arizona; Lance and Reno Creek projects in Wyoming; Church Rock and Roca Honda projects in New Mexico; Dewey-Burdock project in South Dakota; Slick Rock project in Colorado; Langer Heinrich project in Namibia; and Michelin project in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; Energy Queen and Whirlwind project in Utah; and Workman Creek projects in Arizona. Uranium Royalty Corp. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.