CVX vs. XOM, COP, BP, EQNR, SHEL, TTE, PBR, CNQ, ENB, and EOG
Should you be buying Chevron stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chevron include Exxon Mobil (XOM), ConocoPhillips (COP), BP (BP), Equinor ASA (EQNR), Shell (SHEL), TotalEnergies (TTE), Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras (PBR), Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ), Enbridge (ENB), and EOG Resources (EOG). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) and Chevron (NYSE:CVX) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Exxon Mobil presently has a consensus target price of $135.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.96%. Chevron has a consensus target price of $186.10, indicating a potential upside of 18.09%. Given Exxon Mobil's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Chevron is more favorable than Exxon Mobil.
Exxon Mobil has higher revenue and earnings than Chevron. Exxon Mobil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chevron, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Exxon Mobil has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chevron has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Exxon Mobil had 1 more articles in the media than Chevron. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Exxon Mobil and 41 mentions for Chevron. Chevron's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Exxon Mobil's score of 0.55 indicating that Exxon Mobil is being referred to more favorably in the media.
61.8% of Exxon Mobil shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.4% of Chevron shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Exxon Mobil shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Chevron shares are held by company 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.
Exxon Mobil received 156 more outperform votes than Chevron when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.03% of users gave Chevron an outperform vote while only 59.80% of users gave Exxon Mobil an outperform vote.
Chevron has a net margin of 10.21% compared to Chevron's net margin of 9.62%. Chevron's return on equity of 16.75% beat Exxon Mobil's return on equity.
Exxon Mobil pays an annual dividend of $3.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Chevron pays an annual dividend of $6.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Exxon Mobil pays out 46.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chevron pays out 60.0% 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. Exxon Mobil has increased its dividend for 41 consecutive years and Chevron has increased its dividend for 37 consecutive years.
Summary
Chevron beats Exxon Mobil on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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