BP.B vs. BP, TTE, WG, QED, VOG, ECHO, SHEL, VVO, DGOC, and ELA
Should you be buying BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares include BP (BP), TotalEnergies (TTE), John Wood Group (WG), Quadrise (QED), Victoria Oil & Gas (VOG), Echo Energy (ECHO), Shell (SHEL), Vivo Energy (VVO), Diversified Gas & Oil (DGOC), and Eland Oil & Gas (ELA).
BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares (LON:BP.B) and BP (LON:BP) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
44.3% of BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.2% of BP shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.4% of BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of BP shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, BP had 8 more articles in the media than BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for BP and 0 mentions for BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares. BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat BP's score of -0.01 indicating that BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BP received 1635 more outperform votes than BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.42% of users gave BP an outperform vote while only 24.87% of users gave BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares an outperform vote.
BP has a consensus target price of GBX 628.57, suggesting a potential upside of 29.07%. Given BP's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BP is more favorable than BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares.
BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. BP pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares pays out -12.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BP pays out 5,348.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BP has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BP beats BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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