We will be comparing the differences between Kimbell Royalty Partners LP (NYSE:KRP) and Jagged Peak Energy Inc. (NYSE:JAG) as far as profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings and valuation are concerned. The two businesses are rivals in the Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration industry.

Valuation and Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Kimbell Royalty Partners LP	66.93M	20.44	56.77M	-3.24	0.00
Jagged Peak Energy Inc.	581.64M	3.91	165.46M	-0.21	0.00

Table 1 shows the top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation for Kimbell Royalty Partners LP and Jagged Peak Energy Inc.

Profitability

Table 2 shows us Kimbell Royalty Partners LP and Jagged Peak Energy Inc.’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Kimbell Royalty Partners LP	-84.82%	-23.7%	-14.8%
Jagged Peak Energy Inc.	28.45%	0.4%	0.2%

Liquidity

The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of Kimbell Royalty Partners LP are 5.5 and 5.5 respectively. Its competitor Jagged Peak Energy Inc.’s Current Ratio is 0.7 and its Quick Ratio is 0.7. Kimbell Royalty Partners LP can pay off short and long-term obligations better than Jagged Peak Energy Inc.

Dividends

The annual dividend that Kimbell Royalty Partners LP pay is $1.7 per share with a dividend yield of 9.3%. Jagged Peak Energy Inc. does not offer a dividend.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

Institutional investors held 59.9% of Kimbell Royalty Partners LP shares and 29.9% of Jagged Peak Energy Inc. shares. 3.8% are Kimbell Royalty Partners LP’s share held by insiders. On the other hand, insiders held about 1.4% of Jagged Peak Energy Inc.’s shares.

Performance

In this table we provide the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Kimbell Royalty Partners LP	-0.95%	3.33%	7.41%	-17.88%	-9.33%	30.19%
Jagged Peak Energy Inc.	2.11%	1.04%	-10.51%	-18.59%	-13.5%	16.67%

For the past year Kimbell Royalty Partners LP has stronger performance than Jagged Peak Energy Inc.

Summary

On 7 of the 11 factors Jagged Peak Energy Inc. beats Kimbell Royalty Partners LP.

Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP owns and acquires mineral and royalty interests in oil and natural gas properties in the United States. As of March 29, 2017, it owned mineral and royalty interests in approximately 3.7 million gross acres in 20 states and onshore basin in the continental United States, including approximately 48,000 gross producing wells with approximately 29,000 wells in the Permian Basin. Kimbell Royalty GP, LLC serves as a general partner of the company. Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP was founded in 2013 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.

Jagged Peak Energy Inc., an independent oil and natural gas company, focuses on the acquisition and development of unconventional oil and associated liquids-rich natural gas reserves in the Southern Delaware basin, a sub-basin of the Permian basin of West Texas. As of December 31, 2016, it held a 92% average working interest in approximately 66,393 net acres; and had 37,695 thousand barrel of oil equivalent of estimated net proved reserves, as well as owned a 98% average working interest in 49 net productive wells. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.