Head-To-Head Comparison: Texas Pacific Land (NYSE:TPL) vs. NextNRG (NASDAQ:NXXT)

NextNRG (NASDAQ:NXXT) and Texas Pacific Land (NYSE:TPL) are both energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings and valuation.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

10.6% of NextNRG shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of Texas Pacific Land shares are held by institutional investors. 69.1% of NextNRG shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Texas Pacific Land shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

NextNRG has a beta of -0.57, indicating that its share price is 157% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Texas Pacific Land has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NextNRG	-85.79%	N/A	-270.09%
Texas Pacific Land	60.31%	36.18%	32.60%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for NextNRG and Texas Pacific Land, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NextNRG	1	1	1	1	2.50
Texas Pacific Land	1	2	1	0	2.00

NextNRG presently has a consensus price target of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 719.67%. Texas Pacific Land has a consensus price target of $350.00, suggesting a potential downside of 29.91%. Given NextNRG’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe NextNRG is more favorable than Texas Pacific Land.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NextNRG	$27.77 million	3.25	-$16.19 million	($2.02)	-0.33
Texas Pacific Land	$798.19 million	43.13	$481.38 million	$6.98	71.54

Texas Pacific Land has higher revenue and earnings than NextNRG. NextNRG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Texas Pacific Land, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Texas Pacific Land beats NextNRG on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About NextNRG

NextNRG, Inc. engages in the provision of fuel delivery services. It provides app-based interface customers with the ability to select the time and location of their fueling. It offers diesel, red diesel, and REC-90. The company was founded by Yehuda Levy and Michael D. Farkas on March 28, 2019 and is headquartered in Miami, FL.

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.