ET vs. EPD, WMB, KMI, NGG, TRP, TRGP, WES, AM, DTM, and KNTK
Should you be buying Energy Transfer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Energy Transfer include Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Williams Companies (WMB), Kinder Morgan (KMI), National Grid (NGG), 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.
Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) and Energy Transfer (NYSE:ET) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.
26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.2% of Energy Transfer shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Energy Transfer shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Energy Transfer has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Enterprise Products Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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 received 562 more outperform votes than Energy Transfer when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.51% of users gave Enterprise Products Partners an outperform vote while only 71.53% of users gave Energy Transfer an outperform vote.
Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Energy Transfer pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. 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 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 has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Energy Transfer has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Energy Transfer is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Enterprise Products Partners currently has a consensus price target of $32.69, suggesting a potential upside of 15.30%. Energy Transfer has a consensus price target of $18.43, suggesting a potential upside of 19.01%. Given Enterprise Products Partners' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Energy Transfer is more favorable than Enterprise Products Partners.
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.
In the previous week, Enterprise Products Partners had 5 more articles in the media than Energy Transfer. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners and 19 mentions for Energy Transfer. Enterprise Products Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Energy Transfer's score of 0.81 indicating that Energy Transfer is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Enterprise Products Partners beats Energy Transfer on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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