MPC vs. PSX, VLO, SU, HES, EQNR, BP, COP, EPD, PXD, and OXY
Should you be buying Marathon Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marathon Petroleum include Phillips 66 (PSX), Valero Energy (VLO), Suncor Energy (SU), Hess (HES), Equinor ASA (EQNR), BP (BP), ConocoPhillips (COP), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), and Occidental Petroleum (OXY). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC) and Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and dividends.
Marathon Petroleum pays an annual dividend of $3.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Phillips 66 pays an annual dividend of $4.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Marathon Petroleum pays out 16.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Phillips 66 pays out 35.4% 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.
76.8% of Marathon Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.9% of Phillips 66 shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Marathon Petroleum shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Phillips 66 shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Phillips 66 had 7 more articles in the media than Marathon Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Phillips 66 and 13 mentions for Marathon Petroleum. Marathon Petroleum's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Phillips 66's score of 0.88 indicating that Marathon Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Marathon Petroleum currently has a consensus target price of $190.77, indicating a potential upside of 8.21%. Phillips 66 has a consensus target price of $156.21, indicating a potential upside of 9.74%. Given Phillips 66's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Phillips 66 is more favorable than Marathon Petroleum.
Marathon Petroleum has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Phillips 66 has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Marathon Petroleum has a net margin of 5.32% compared to Phillips 66's net margin of 3.84%. Marathon Petroleum's return on equity of 25.87% beat Phillips 66's return on equity.
Marathon Petroleum has higher revenue and earnings than Phillips 66. Marathon Petroleum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Phillips 66, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Marathon Petroleum received 223 more outperform votes than Phillips 66 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.47% of users gave Marathon Petroleum an outperform vote while only 60.81% of users gave Phillips 66 an outperform vote.
Summary
Marathon Petroleum beats Phillips 66 on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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