MUR vs. XOM, CVX, OXY, HES, CTRA, EQT, WDS, MRO, OVV, and PR
Should you be buying Murphy Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Murphy Oil include Exxon Mobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), Occidental Petroleum (OXY), Hess (HES), Coterra Energy (CTRA), EQT (EQT), Woodside Energy Group (WDS), Marathon Oil (MRO), Ovintiv (OVV), and Permian Resources (PR). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) and Murphy Oil (NYSE:MUR) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
Murphy Oil has a net margin of 16.40% compared to Murphy Oil's net margin of 9.62%. Murphy Oil's return on equity of 16.75% beat Exxon Mobil's return on equity.
Exxon Mobil has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Murphy Oil has a beta of 2.21, meaning that its share price is 121% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Exxon Mobil currently has a consensus target price of $133.71, suggesting a potential upside of 18.59%. Murphy Oil has a consensus target price of $51.00, suggesting a potential upside of 28.56%. Given Exxon Mobil's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Murphy Oil is more favorable than Exxon Mobil.
Exxon Mobil pays an annual dividend of $3.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Murphy Oil pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Exxon Mobil pays out 46.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Murphy Oil pays out 33.4% 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. Murphy Oil has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
Exxon Mobil received 919 more outperform votes than Murphy Oil when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.77% of users gave Exxon Mobil an outperform vote while only 48.49% of users gave Murphy Oil an outperform vote.
61.8% of Exxon Mobil shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Murphy Oil shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Exxon Mobil shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Murphy Oil shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Exxon Mobil has higher revenue and earnings than Murphy Oil. Murphy Oil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Exxon Mobil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Exxon Mobil had 21 more articles in the media than Murphy Oil. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Exxon Mobil and 5 mentions for Murphy Oil. Murphy Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Exxon Mobil's score of 0.48 indicating that Exxon Mobil is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Exxon Mobil beats Murphy Oil on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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