PSX vs. MPC, VLO, SU, HES, EQNR, BP, COP, EPD, PXD, and OXY
Should you be buying Phillips 66 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Phillips 66 include Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Valero Energy (VLO), Suncor Energy (SU), Hess (HES), Equinor ASA (EQNR), BP (BP), ConocoPhillips (COP), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), and Occidental Petroleum (OXY). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC) and Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Marathon Petroleum has a net margin of 5.32% compared to Marathon Petroleum's net margin of 3.84%. Phillips 66's return on equity of 25.87% beat Marathon Petroleum's return on equity.
Marathon Petroleum currently has a consensus price target of $190.77, indicating a potential upside of 7.29%. Phillips 66 has a consensus price target of $156.21, indicating a potential upside of 9.49%. Given Marathon Petroleum's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Phillips 66 is more favorable than Marathon Petroleum.
Marathon Petroleum pays an annual dividend of $3.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Phillips 66 pays an annual dividend of $4.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Marathon Petroleum pays out 16.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Phillips 66 pays out 35.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Marathon Petroleum has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Phillips 66 has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Phillips 66 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Marathon Petroleum has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Phillips 66 has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Marathon Petroleum had 6 more articles in the media than Phillips 66. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Marathon Petroleum and 9 mentions for Phillips 66. Marathon Petroleum's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Phillips 66's score of 0.90 indicating that Phillips 66 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Marathon Petroleum has higher revenue and earnings than Phillips 66. Marathon Petroleum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Phillips 66, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
76.8% of Marathon Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.9% of Phillips 66 shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Marathon Petroleum shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Phillips 66 shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Marathon Petroleum received 223 more outperform votes than Phillips 66 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.47% of users gave Marathon Petroleum an outperform vote while only 60.81% of users gave Phillips 66 an outperform vote.
Summary
Marathon Petroleum beats Phillips 66 on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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