Financial Survey: Woodside Energy Group (NYSE:WDS) & Montauk Renewables (NASDAQ:MNTK)

Woodside Energy Group (NYSE:WDS) and Montauk Renewables (NASDAQ:MNTK) are both energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and earnings.

Volatility & Risk

Woodside Energy Group has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Montauk Renewables has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Woodside Energy Group and Montauk Renewables, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Woodside Energy Group	0	1	0	1	3.00
Montauk Renewables	1	4	0	0	1.80

Montauk Renewables has a consensus price target of $1.80, indicating a potential upside of 8.43%. Given Montauk Renewables’ higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Montauk Renewables is more favorable than Woodside Energy Group.

Profitability

This table compares Woodside Energy Group and Montauk Renewables’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Woodside Energy Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Montauk Renewables	0.40%	0.28%	0.17%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

3.2% of Woodside Energy Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.4% of Montauk Renewables shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Woodside Energy Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 54.3% of Montauk Renewables shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Woodside Energy Group and Montauk Renewables”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Woodside Energy Group	$12.98 billion	3.13	$2.72 billion	N/A	N/A
Montauk Renewables	$176.38 million	1.34	$1.75 million	$0.02	83.00

Woodside Energy Group has higher revenue and earnings than Montauk Renewables.

Summary

Montauk Renewables beats Woodside Energy Group on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Woodside Energy Group

Woodside Energy Group Ltd engages in the exploration, evaluation, development, production, and marketing of hydrocarbons in the Asia Pacific, Africa, the Americas, and the Europe. The company produces liquefied natural gas, pipeline gas, crude oil and condensate, and natural gas liquids. It holds interests in the Pluto LNG, North West Shelf, Wheatstone and Julimar-Brunello, Bass Strait, Ngujima-Yin FPSO, Okha FPSO, Pyrenees FPSO, Macedon, Shenzi, Mad dog, Greater Angostura, as well as Scarborough, Sangomar, Trion, Calypso, Browse, Liard, Atlantis, Woodside Solar opportunity, and Sunrise and Troubadour. The company involves in development of new energy products and carbon services. The company was formerly known as Woodside Petroleum Ltd and changed its name to Woodside Energy Group Ltd in May 2022. Woodside Energy Group Ltd was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Perth, Australia.

About Montauk Renewables

Montauk Renewables, Inc., a renewable energy company, engages in recovery and processing of biogas from landfills and other non-fossil fuel sources. It operates in two segments, Renewable Natural Gas and Renewable Electricity Generation. The company develops, owns, and operates renewable natural gas (RNG) projects that captures methane and prevents it from being released into the atmosphere by converting it into either RNG or electrical power for the electrical grid. Its customers for RNG and renewable identification numbers (RIN) include large, long-term owner-operators of landfills and livestock farms, local utilities, and large refiners in the natural gas and refining sectors. Montauk Renewables, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.