Head to Head Review: Texas Pacific Land (NYSE:TPL) versus Itm Power (OTCMKTS:ITMPF)

Texas Pacific Land (NYSE:TPL) and Itm Power (OTCMKTS:ITMPF) are both energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Texas Pacific Land and Itm Power, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Texas Pacific Land	1	2	1	0	2.00
Itm Power	0	1	0	1	3.00

Texas Pacific Land presently has a consensus price target of $639.00, suggesting a potential upside of 57.09%. Given Texas Pacific Land’s higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Texas Pacific Land is more favorable than Itm Power.

Risk and Volatility

Texas Pacific Land has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Itm Power has a beta of 2.22, indicating that its stock price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Texas Pacific Land and Itm Power’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Texas Pacific Land	60.31%	36.18%	32.60%
Itm Power	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider & Institutional Ownership

59.9% of Texas Pacific Land shares are held by institutional investors. 6.9% of Texas Pacific Land shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Texas Pacific Land and Itm Power”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Texas Pacific Land	$798.19 million	35.13	$481.38 million	$6.98	58.28
Itm Power	$33.35 million	17.59	-$58.30 million	N/A	N/A

Texas Pacific Land has higher revenue and earnings than Itm Power.

Summary

Texas Pacific Land beats Itm Power on 10 of the 13 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 Itm Power

ITM Power Plc designs and manufactures proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysers in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, rest of Europe, and the United States. Its product portfolio includes TRIDENT, an PEM electrolysers stack technology; NEPTUNE, a 2MW plug and play electrolyser for small to mid-size projects; and POSEIDON, a cutting-edge 20 MW module for large-scale projects. ITM Power Plc was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Sheffield, the United Kingdom.