Texas Pacific Land (NYSE:TPL) versus Sunrise New Energy (NASDAQ:EPOW) Financial Survey

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

Profitability

This table compares Texas Pacific Land and Sunrise New Energy’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%
Sunrise New Energy	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

59.9% of Texas Pacific Land shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.9% of Sunrise New Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 6.9% of Texas Pacific Land shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 42.5% of Sunrise New Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Texas Pacific Land and Sunrise New Energy, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Texas Pacific Land	1	1	1	1	2.50
Sunrise New Energy	1	0	0	0	1.00

Texas Pacific Land currently has a consensus target price of $639.00, indicating a potential upside of 47.50%. Given Texas Pacific Land’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Texas Pacific Land is more favorable than Sunrise New Energy.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Texas Pacific Land and Sunrise New Energy”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Texas Pacific Land	$798.19 million	37.42	$481.38 million	$6.98	62.07
Sunrise New Energy	$65.00 million	0.30	-$12.76 million	N/A	N/A

Texas Pacific Land has higher revenue and earnings than Sunrise New Energy.

Risk & Volatility

Texas Pacific Land has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sunrise New Energy has a beta of 0.19, suggesting that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Texas Pacific Land beats Sunrise New Energy on 12 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 Sunrise New Energy

Sunrise New Energy Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of graphite anode material for EVs and other lithium-ion batteries. The company also operates a peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and enterprise service platform business. In addition, it offers education consulting, training, tailored, information technology, business incubation, enterprise information technology integration, health, and agricultural technology services, as well as cultural and artistic exchanges and planning, and conference services. The company was formerly known as Global Internet of People, Inc. Sunrise New Energy Co., Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Zibo, the People’s Republic of China.