Based on key financial metrics such as the price-to-sales ratio, shareholder yield and the price-earnings ratio, the following 7 stocks made the list for top value stocks in the Oil & Gas - Exploration and Production industry. Those looking for value stocks to add to their portfolio may want to use this list as a starting point for further investment research.

Why Focus on Undervalued Oil & Gas - Exploration and Production Stocks?

Value investors seek to buy stocks at a discount to their intrinsic value. Long-term returns show that such strategies are advantageous. Value stocks, as a group, tend to outperform growth stocks over extended periods of time. Typically, value investors perform financial analysis of numerous metrics, don’t follow the herd and are long-term investors.

AAII’s A+ Investor Value Grade is derived from a stock’s Value Score. The Value Score is the percentile rank of the average of the percentile ranks of the price-to-sales ratio, price-earnings ratio, enterprise-value-to-EBITDA (EV/EBITDA) ratio, shareholder yield, price-to-book-value ratio and price-to-free-cash-flow ratio. The score is variable, meaning it can consider all six ratios or, should any of the six ratios not be valid, the remaining ratios that are valid. To be assigned a Value Score, stocks must have a valid (non-null) ratio and corresponding ranking for at least two of the six valuation ratios.

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7 Undervalued Oil & Gas - Exploration and Production Stocks

Of course, there are countless value stocks that are worth mentioning, but this is a concise list of the top 7 undervalued stocks in the Oil & Gas - Exploration and Production industry for Wednesday, July 03, 2024. Let’s take a closer look at their individual scores to see how they measure up against each other and the Oil & Gas - Exploration and Production industry median.

The Value Grade is assigned based on how each stock’s composite valuation compares to all other stocks.

The process for assigning grades starts with each variable for a given stock. The percentile rankings for all valid ratios that a stock has are calculated. So, for instance, a stock could have a price-to-book ranking in the 43rd percentile, a price-earnings ranking in the 67th percentile, a price-to-sales ranking in the 23rd percentile, etc. Then, those rankings are averaged for each stock. (A minimum of two valid variables are required, though all six will be used if available.)

Once the average of the individual variables is calculated, that average is ranked against all stocks. Put another way, each stock’s composite valuation is compared to all other stocks. These ranks are then sorted into quintiles from the cheapest 20% (a grade of A) to the most expensive 20% (a grade of F).

As always, we recommend that you conduct proper due diligence and research before investing in any security. We also suggest that investors utilize numerous grades, not just value, when it comes to deciding whether a company is a good fit for their allocation needs.

Barnwell Industries Inc’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

Barnwell Industries, Inc. is engaged in three businesses: acquiring, developing, producing and selling oil and natural gas in Canada and Oklahoma; investing in land interests in Hawaii; and drilling wells and installing and repairing water pumping systems in Hawaii. The Company operates through three segments: Oil and Natural Gas, Land Investment, and Contract Drilling. Oil and Natural Gas Segment is engaged in oil and natural gas development, production, acquisitions and sales in Canada and Oklahoma. It invests in oil and natural gas properties, which are located in Alberta, Canada and Oklahoma. Land Investment segment is entitled to receive contingent residual payments from the entities that previously purchased the Company?s land investment interests under contracts entered into in prior years. Contract Drilling segment provides well drilling services and water pumping system installation and repairs in Hawaii.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Barnwell Industries Inc has a Value Score of 78, which is considered to be undervalued.

When you look at Barnwell Industries Inc’s price-to-sales ratio at 1.00 compared to the industry median at 2.28, this company has a lower price relative to revenue compared to its peers. This could make Barnwell Industries Inc’s stock more attractive for value investors.

Now, let’s assess Barnwell Industries Inc’s EV/EBITDA ratio, also known as enterprise multiple. At 7.4, when compared to the industry median of 5.4, the company may be considered overvalued in relation to its peers. Value investors could use the enterprise multiple to identify stocks that are considered overvalued or undervalued relative to their industry.

Shareholder yield is the sum of a stock’s dividend yield (paid over previous 12 months minus special dividends) and the percentage of net share buybacks over the previous 12 months. Barnwell Industries Inc’s shareholder yield is lower than its industry median ratio of 2.05%. Value investors may look for an attractive shareholder yield because it can be a powerful tool for identifying if the company has a good management team.

As one of the most common value metrics, the price-to-book ratio evaluates a company’s current market price relative to its book value. Barnwell Industries Inc’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its industry median ratio of 1.40. This could make Barnwell Industries Inc less attractive to investors looking for a new addition to their portfolio.

Lastly, let’s take a look at Barnwell Industries Inc’s price-to-free-cash-flow ratio (P/FCF), which can indicate a company’s market value relative to its operating cash flow. Barnwell Industries Inc’s price-to-free-cash-flow ratio is lower than its industry median ratio of 8.69. This could make Barnwell Industries Inc more attractive because the lower P/FCF ratio indicates that Barnwell Industries Inc is undervalued. The P/FCF ratio metric can also be viewed over a long-term time frame to see if the company's cash flow to share price value is generally improving or worsening.

Chesapeake Energy Corp’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

Chesapeake Energy Corporation is an independent exploration and production company. The Company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of properties to produce natural gas, oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) from underground reservoirs. It owns a large portfolio of onshore United States (U.S.) unconventional natural gas assets, including interests in approximately 5,000 natural gas wells. The Company's natural gas resource plays are Marcellus Shale in the northern Appalachian Basin in Pennsylvania (Marcellus) and the Haynesville/Bossier Shales in northwestern Louisiana (Haynesville).

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Chesapeake Energy Corp has a Value Score of 84, which is considered to be undervalued.

Chesapeake Energy Corp’s price-earnings ratio is 11.2 compared to the industry median at 11.5. This means that it has a lower price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes Chesapeake Energy Corp more attractive for value investors.

Chesapeake Energy Corp’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its peers. This could make Chesapeake Energy Corp less attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.40.

You can read more about Chesapeake Energy Corp’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Crescent Energy Co’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

Crescent Energy Company is an energy company with a portfolio of assets concentrated in Texas and the Rockies. It is engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil, natural gas and NGLs. The Company’s portfolio includes low-decline oil and natural gas assets in proven regions across the United States, including in the Eagle Ford and Rockies. In addition to this geographic diversity, its portfolio of leasehold acreage is enhanced and complemented by additional interests in mineral acreage and midstream infrastructure. In addition to its leasehold acreage, the Company owns mineral and royalty interests. The Company owned mineral interests in 175 thousand gross acres and an overriding royalty interest in 126 thousand gross acres, both operated by large, well-capitalized oil and natural gas companies primarily in the Eagle Ford, Marcellus, Utica, and Rockies. It also owns and operates a variety of midstream assets, which provide services to its upstream assets and other customers.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Crescent Energy Co has a Value Score of 65, which is considered to be undervalued.

Crescent Energy Co’s price-earnings ratio is 529.2 compared to the industry median at 11.5. This means that it has a higher price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes Crescent Energy Co less attractive for value investors.

Crescent Energy Co’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its peers. This could make Crescent Energy Co less attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.40.

You can read more about Crescent Energy Co’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Eca Marcellus Trust I’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

ECA Marcellus Trust I (the Trust) is a statutory trust. The Trust does not conduct any operations or activities. The Trust's purpose is to hold the Royalty Interests, to distribute to the Trust unitholders cash that the Trust receives in respect of the Royalty Interests after the payment of Trust expenses, and to perform certain administrative functions in respect of the Royalty Interests and the Trust units. The Trust owned royalty interests in the 14 Producing Wells and royalty interests in 52 horizontal natural gas development wells to be drilled to the Marcellus Shale formation within the area of mutual interest (AMI), in which Legacy ECA holds approximately 9,300 acres, of which it owned all the working interests, in Greene County, Pennsylvania. The Trust also holds royalty interests in over 40 development wells that are in production. Its subsidiary, Greylock Production, LLC, which operates subject wells. The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. serves as Trustee.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Eca Marcellus Trust I has a Value Score of 89, which is considered to be undervalued.

Eca Marcellus Trust I’s price-earnings ratio is 9.1 compared to the industry median at 11.5. This means that it has a lower price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes Eca Marcellus Trust I more attractive for value investors.

Eca Marcellus Trust I’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its peers. This could make Eca Marcellus Trust I less attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.40.

You can read more about Eca Marcellus Trust I’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Greenfire Resources Ltd’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

Greenfire Resources Ltd is an oil sands producer focused on the sustainable development of its Tier-1 assets in Western Canada. The Company’s operations include Thermal Oil Operations, Tier-1 Oil Sands Reservoir, Hangingstone Facilities, Pipeline Infrastructure, and Cooperation with Trafigura. The Company’s operations are based in the Canadian oil sands where it leverages in situ thermal oil development to access Western Canada’s energy resources. The Company’s resource base is concentrated in the Athabasca region of Northern Alberta and comprises two of the five Tier-1 steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) assets in the province, providing access to a reservoir. It operates two SAGD oil production facilities within the same Tier-1 reservoir at Hangingstone, situated 50 kilometers (km) south of Fort McMurray in Northern Alberta. Hangingstone Expansion is located 55 km south of Fort McMurray, Alberta. The Demo Asset is located 50 km south of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Greenfire Resources Ltd has a Value Score of 91, which is considered to be undervalued.

Greenfire Resources Ltd’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its peers. This could make Greenfire Resources Ltd less attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.40.

You can read more about Greenfire Resources Ltd’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Marathon Oil Corp’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

Marathon Oil Corporation is an independent exploration and production company. The Company is focused on the United States resource plays, which include Eagle Ford in Texas, Bakken in North Dakota, Sooner Trend Anadarko Basin Canadian and Kingfisher Counties (STACK) and South-Central Oklahoma Oil Province (SCOOP) in Oklahoma and Permian in New Mexico and Texas. The Company operates through two segments: United States and International. The United States segment explores for, produces and markets crude oil and condensate, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and natural gas in the United States. The International segment explores for, produces and markets crude oil and condensate, NGLs and natural gas outside of the United States as well as produces and markets products manufactured from natural gas, such as LNG and methanol, in Equatorial Guinea (E.G.). Its subsidiaries include Alba Associates LLC, Alba Equatorial Guinea Partnership, L.P., Alba Plant LLC and AMPCO Marketing, L.L.C.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Marathon Oil Corp has a Value Score of 73, which is considered to be undervalued.

Marathon Oil Corp’s price-earnings ratio is 11.8 compared to the industry median at 11.5. This means that it has a higher price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes Marathon Oil Corp less attractive for value investors.

Marathon Oil Corp’s price-to-book ratio is lower than its peers. This could make Marathon Oil Corp more attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.40.

You can read more about Marathon Oil Corp’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

W&T; Offshore, Inc.’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

W&T; Offshore, Inc. is an independent oil and natural gas producer. The Company is engaged in the exploration, development and acquisition of oil and natural gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico. It has a working interest in over 53 offshore producing fields in federal and state waters (which include 44 fields in federal waters and nine in state waters). The Company has under lease approximately 597,100 gross acres (440,000 net acres) spanning across the outer continental shelf off the coasts of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama, with approximately 435,600 gross acres on the conventional shelf, approximately 153,500 gross acres in the deepwater and 8,000 gross acres in Alabama onshore. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries consists of Aquasition Energy, LLC, Aquasition, LLC, Aquasition II, LLC, Aquasition III, LLC, Aquasition IV, LLC, Aquasition V, LLC, Green Hell, LLC, Seaquester, LLC, Seaquestration, LLC, and W & T Energy VI, LLC.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

W&T; Offshore, Inc. has a Value Score of 77, which is considered to be undervalued.

W&T; Offshore, Inc.’s price-to-book ratio is lower than its peers. This could make W&T; Offshore, Inc. more attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 1.40.

You can read more about W&T; Offshore, Inc.’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Other Oil & Gas - Exploration and Production Stock Grades

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Choosing Which of the 7 Best Oil & Gas - Exploration and Production Stocks Is Right for You

Choosing which value stocks to invest in will ultimately depend on your individual goals and allocation; however, comparing similar value stocks in the same industry can help you analyze which might be better investments for you in the long run. So, let’s take a look at the Value Grade for all of our stocks.

• Barnwell Industries Inc stock has a Value Grade of B.
• Chesapeake Energy Corp stock has a Value Grade of A.
• Crescent Energy Co stock has a Value Grade of B.
• Eca Marcellus Trust I stock has a Value Grade of A.
• Greenfire Resources Ltd stock has a Value Grade of A.
• Marathon Oil Corp stock has a Value Grade of B.
• W&T; Offshore, Inc. stock has a Value Grade of B.

Now that you have a bit more background about each of the 7 undervalued stocks in the Oil & Gas - Exploration and Production industry as well as their overall grades, it’s time for you to conduct additional research to see if these could fit your portfolio needs based on your goals and risk tolerance. AAII can help you figure out both and identify which investments align with what works best for you.

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Additional Resources About Oil & Gas - Exploration and Production Stocks

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