TRP vs. KMI, WMB, TRGP, ET, EPD, CVE, MPLX, LNG, FANG, and GEV
Should you be buying TC Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TC Energy include Kinder Morgan (KMI), Williams Companies (WMB), Targa Resources (TRGP), Energy Transfer (ET), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Cenovus Energy (CVE), Mplx (MPLX), Cheniere Energy (LNG), Diamondback Energy (FANG), and GE Vernova (GEV). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
TC Energy (NYSE:TRP) and Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMI) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.
Kinder Morgan has higher revenue and earnings than TC Energy. Kinder Morgan is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TC Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TC Energy currently has a consensus target price of $48.83, suggesting a potential upside of 27.77%. Kinder Morgan has a consensus target price of $20.20, suggesting a potential upside of 5.87%. Given TC Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe TC Energy is more favorable than Kinder Morgan.
In the previous week, Kinder Morgan had 1 more articles in the media than TC Energy. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Kinder Morgan and 15 mentions for TC Energy. Kinder Morgan's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat TC Energy's score of 0.63 indicating that Kinder Morgan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kinder Morgan received 332 more outperform votes than TC Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.97% of users gave Kinder Morgan an outperform vote while only 63.56% of users gave TC Energy an outperform vote.
TC Energy has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinder Morgan has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TC Energy has a net margin of 17.23% compared to Kinder Morgan's net margin of 16.08%. TC Energy's return on equity of 17.94% beat Kinder Morgan's return on equity.
83.1% of TC Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of Kinder Morgan shares are held by institutional investors. 12.8% of Kinder Morgan shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
TC Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.83 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Kinder Morgan pays an annual dividend of $1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. TC Energy pays out 145.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kinder Morgan pays out 104.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
TC Energy beats Kinder Morgan on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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