HESM vs. MTDR, SWN, CHRD, RRC, MUR, VNOM, SM, AR, MGY, and CPG
Should you be buying Hess Midstream stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hess Midstream include Matador Resources (MTDR), Southwestern Energy (SWN), Chord Energy (CHRD), Range Resources (RRC), Murphy Oil (MUR), Viper Energy (VNOM), SM Energy (SM), Antero Resources (AR), Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY), and Crescent Point Energy (CPG). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Matador Resources (NYSE:MTDR) and Hess Midstream (NYSE:HESM) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Matador Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Hess Midstream. Matador Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hess Midstream, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Matador Resources has a net margin of 28.89% compared to Matador Resources' net margin of 10.18%. Matador Resources' return on equity of 35.08% beat Hess Midstream's return on equity.
Matador Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Hess Midstream pays an annual dividend of $2.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Matador Resources pays out 11.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hess Midstream pays out 118.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Matador Resources has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Hess Midstream has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years. Hess Midstream is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
92.0% of Matador Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Hess Midstream shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.0% of Matador Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Matador Resources presently has a consensus price target of $74.80, indicating a potential upside of 20.49%. Hess Midstream has a consensus price target of $36.50, indicating a potential upside of 3.05%. Given Hess Midstream's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Matador Resources is more favorable than Hess Midstream.
In the previous week, Matador Resources had 10 more articles in the media than Hess Midstream. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Matador Resources and 1 mentions for Hess Midstream. Hess Midstream's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Matador Resources' score of 0.88 indicating that Matador Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Matador Resources has a beta of 3.33, suggesting that its stock price is 233% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hess Midstream has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Matador Resources received 411 more outperform votes than Hess Midstream when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.20% of users gave Matador Resources an outperform vote while only 63.49% of users gave Hess Midstream an outperform vote.
Summary
Matador Resources beats Hess Midstream on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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