TPL vs. MRO, ENPH, OVV, PR, PAA, CHK, FTI, APA, DINO, and AR
Should you be buying Texas Pacific Land stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Texas Pacific Land include Marathon Oil (MRO), Enphase Energy (ENPH), Ovintiv (OVV), Permian Resources (PR), Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), TechnipFMC (FTI), APA (APA), HF Sinclair (DINO), and Antero Resources (AR). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Marathon Oil (NYSE:MRO) and Texas Pacific Land (NYSE:TPL) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Marathon Oil pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Texas Pacific Land pays an annual dividend of $4.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Marathon Oil pays out 18.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Texas Pacific Land pays out 24.8% 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 Oil has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Texas Pacific Land has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Marathon Oil is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
77.2% of Marathon Oil shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of Texas Pacific Land shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Marathon Oil shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Texas Pacific Land shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Marathon Oil has a beta of 2.22, indicating that its share price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Texas Pacific Land has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Texas Pacific Land has a net margin of 65.74% compared to Texas Pacific Land's net margin of 21.83%. Marathon Oil's return on equity of 43.16% beat Texas Pacific Land's return on equity.
Marathon Oil has higher revenue and earnings than Texas Pacific Land. Marathon Oil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Texas Pacific Land, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Marathon Oil currently has a consensus target price of $33.14, suggesting a potential upside of 28.20%. Texas Pacific Land has a consensus target price of $694.17, suggesting a potential upside of 11.98%. Given Texas Pacific Land's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Marathon Oil is more favorable than Texas Pacific Land.
Marathon Oil received 758 more outperform votes than Texas Pacific Land when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.63% of users gave Texas Pacific Land an outperform vote while only 65.96% of users gave Marathon Oil an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Marathon Oil had 9 more articles in the media than Texas Pacific Land. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Marathon Oil and 1 mentions for Texas Pacific Land. Marathon Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Texas Pacific Land's score of 0.85 indicating that Texas Pacific Land is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Marathon Oil beats Texas Pacific Land on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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