BP vs. SHEL, BP.B, TTE, WG, QED, VOG, ECHO, WDS, DCC, and HBR
Should you be buying BP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BP include Shell (SHEL), BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares (BP.B), TotalEnergies (TTE), John Wood Group (WG), Quadrise (QED), Victoria Oil & Gas (VOG), Echo Energy (ECHO), Woodside Energy Group (WDS), DCC (DCC), and Harbour Energy (HBR).
BP (LON:BP) and Shell (LON:SHEL) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
BP has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shell has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BP currently has a consensus price target of GBX 628.57, indicating a potential upside of 35.85%. Shell has a consensus price target of GBX 3,123.50, indicating a potential upside of 14.31%. Given BP's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BP is more favorable than Shell.
In the previous week, BP had 3 more articles in the media than Shell. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for BP and 2 mentions for Shell. BP's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Shell's score of 0.51 indicating that BP is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Shell has higher revenue and earnings than BP. BP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BP pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Shell pays an annual dividend of GBX 109 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. 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. Shell pays out 5,069.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
45.3% of BP shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.1% of Shell shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of BP shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Shell shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Shell has a net margin of 5.96% compared to BP's net margin of 4.62%. BP's return on equity of 11.47% beat Shell's return on equity.
BP received 1634 more outperform votes than Shell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.42% of users gave BP an outperform vote while only 28.90% of users gave Shell an outperform vote.
Summary
Shell beats BP on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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