COP vs. BP, EQNR, MPC, PSX, VLO, SU, HES, CVX, XOM, and TTE
Should you be buying ConocoPhillips stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ConocoPhillips include BP (BP), Equinor ASA (EQNR), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Phillips 66 (PSX), Valero Energy (VLO), Suncor Energy (SU), Hess (HES), Chevron (CVX), Exxon Mobil (XOM), and TotalEnergies (TTE). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) and BP (NYSE:BP) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
BP has higher revenue and earnings than ConocoPhillips. BP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ConocoPhillips, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ConocoPhillips has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BP has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ConocoPhillips pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. BP pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. ConocoPhillips pays out 26.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BP pays out 53.9% 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.
In the previous week, ConocoPhillips had 3 more articles in the media than BP. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for ConocoPhillips and 23 mentions for BP. ConocoPhillips' average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat BP's score of 0.20 indicating that ConocoPhillips is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ConocoPhillips has a net margin of 18.40% compared to BP's net margin of 4.51%. ConocoPhillips' return on equity of 20.85% beat BP's return on equity.
BP received 129 more outperform votes than ConocoPhillips when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.95% of users gave BP an outperform vote while only 66.33% of users gave ConocoPhillips an outperform vote.
ConocoPhillips currently has a consensus target price of $143.24, indicating a potential upside of 20.77%. BP has a consensus target price of $43.88, indicating a potential upside of 18.09%. Given ConocoPhillips' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe ConocoPhillips is more favorable than BP.
82.4% of ConocoPhillips shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.0% of BP shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of ConocoPhillips shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of BP shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
ConocoPhillips beats BP on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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