BP.B vs. BP, TTE, WG, QED, VOG, ECHO, SHEL, VVO, DGOC, and ELA
Should you be buying BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares include BP (BP), TotalEnergies (TTE), John Wood Group (WG), Quadrise (QED), Victoria Oil & Gas (VOG), Echo Energy (ECHO), Shell (SHEL), Vivo Energy (VVO), Diversified Gas & Oil (DGOC), and Eland Oil & Gas (ELA).
BP (LON:BP) and BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares (LON:BP.B) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
45.3% of BP shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.3% of BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of BP shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
BP has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BP received 1635 more outperform votes than BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.42% of users gave BP an outperform vote while only 24.87% of users gave BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares an outperform vote.
BP currently has a consensus target price of GBX 628.57, suggesting a potential upside of 28.77%. Given BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe BP is more favorable than BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares.
BP pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. BP pays out 5,348.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares pays out -12.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BP had 5 more articles in the media than BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for BP and 1 mentions for BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares. BP's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares' score of 0.01 indicating that BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
BP beats BP PLC 9 Percent Preferred Shares on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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