COP vs. BP, EQNR, MPC, PSX, VLO, SU, HES, CVX, XOM, and TTE
Should you be buying ConocoPhillips stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ConocoPhillips include BP (BP), Equinor ASA (EQNR), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Phillips 66 (PSX), Valero Energy (VLO), Suncor Energy (SU), Hess (HES), Chevron (CVX), Exxon Mobil (XOM), and TotalEnergies (TTE). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) and BP (NYSE:BP) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
82.4% of ConocoPhillips shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.0% of BP shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of ConocoPhillips shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of BP shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
ConocoPhillips currently has a consensus price target of $142.65, suggesting a potential upside of 16.81%. BP has a consensus price target of $43.72, suggesting a potential upside of 13.02%. Given ConocoPhillips' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe ConocoPhillips is more favorable than BP.
BP has higher revenue and earnings than ConocoPhillips. BP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ConocoPhillips, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BP received 131 more outperform votes than ConocoPhillips when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.93% of users gave BP an outperform vote while only 66.31% of users gave ConocoPhillips an outperform vote.
In the previous week, ConocoPhillips had 20 more articles in the media than BP. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for ConocoPhillips and 13 mentions for BP. BP's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat ConocoPhillips' score of 0.36 indicating that BP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ConocoPhillips has a net margin of 18.71% compared to BP's net margin of 7.15%. ConocoPhillips' return on equity of 22.08% beat BP's return on equity.
ConocoPhillips has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BP has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ConocoPhillips pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. BP pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. ConocoPhillips pays out 25.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BP pays out 33.8% 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.
Summary
ConocoPhillips beats BP on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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