5 Value Stocks To Watch In The Energy Sector

What are Value Stocks?

A value stock is traditionally defined in terms of how investors in the marketplace are valuing that company's future growth prospects. Low P/E multiples are good base indicators that the company is undervalued and can most likely be labelled as a value stock.

Below is a list of notable value stocks in the energy sector:

1. Callon Petroleum CPE - P/E: 1.95
2. Chevron CVX - P/E: 9.25
3. Matador Resources MTDR - P/E: 6.51
4. San Juan Basin Royalty SJT - P/E: 7.32
5. PBF Energy PBF - P/E: 2.15

Callon Petroleum's earnings per share for Q3 sits at $4.04, whereas in Q2, they were at 3.68. This quarter, Chevron experienced a decrease in earnings per share, which was $5.56 in Q3 and is now $4.09. The company's most recent dividend yield sits at 3.34%, which has increased by 0.09% from 3.25% last quarter.

Most recently, Matador Resources reported earnings per share at $2.68, whereas in Q2 earnings per share sat at $3.47. The company's most recent dividend yield sits at 0.92%, which has increased by 0.33% from 0.59% last quarter.

San Juan Basin Royalty has reported Q3 earnings per share at $0.45, which has increased by 55.17% compared to Q2, which was 0.29. The company's most recent dividend yield sits at 12.59%, which has increased by 2.92% from 9.67% last quarter.

This quarter, PBF Energy experienced a decrease in earnings per share, which was $7.96 in Q3 and is now $4.41. Most recently, the company reported a dividend yield of 1.91%, which has increased by 0.12% from last quarter's yield of 1.79%.

The Significance: A value stock may need some time to rebound from its undervalued position. The risk of investing in a value stock is that this emergence may never materialize.