EPD vs. ET, WMB, NGG, KMI, TRP, TRGP, WES, AM, DTM, and KNTK
Should you be buying Enterprise Products Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enterprise Products Partners include Energy Transfer (ET), Williams Companies (WMB), National Grid (NGG), Kinder Morgan (KMI), TC Energy (TRP), Targa Resources (TRGP), Western Midstream Partners (WES), Antero Midstream (AM), DT Midstream (DTM), and Kinetik (KNTK). These companies are all part of the "natural gas transmission" industry.
Energy Transfer (NYSE:ET) and Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) 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, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Enterprise Products Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Energy Transfer. Enterprise Products Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Energy Transfer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Enterprise Products Partners has a net margin of 10.76% compared to Enterprise Products Partners' net margin of 4.85%. Energy Transfer's return on equity of 19.73% beat Enterprise Products Partners' return on equity.
Energy Transfer pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Energy Transfer pays out 116.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Enterprise Products Partners pays out 80.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Energy Transfer has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Enterprise Products Partners has raised its dividend for 27 consecutive years.
38.2% of Energy Transfer shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Energy Transfer shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Energy Transfer presently has a consensus price target of $18.43, indicating a potential upside of 19.28%. Enterprise Products Partners has a consensus price target of $32.69, indicating a potential upside of 15.97%. Given Enterprise Products Partners' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Energy Transfer is more favorable than Enterprise Products Partners.
In the previous week, Enterprise Products Partners had 4 more articles in the media than Energy Transfer. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners and 23 mentions for Energy Transfer. Enterprise Products Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Energy Transfer's score of 0.64 indicating that Energy Transfer is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Energy Transfer has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Enterprise Products Partners received 561 more outperform votes than Energy Transfer when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.49% of users gave Enterprise Products Partners an outperform vote while only 71.53% of users gave Energy Transfer an outperform vote.
Summary
Enterprise Products Partners beats Energy Transfer on 15 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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