EPD vs. ET, WMB, KMI, TRP, TRGP, PXD, OXY, CEG, PSX, and E
Should you be buying Enterprise Products Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enterprise Products Partners include Energy Transfer (ET), Williams Companies (WMB), Kinder Morgan (KMI), TC Energy (TRP), Targa Resources (TRGP), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), Occidental Petroleum (OXY), Constellation Energy (CEG), Phillips 66 (PSX), and ENI (E). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Energy Transfer (NYSE:ET) and Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Energy Transfer has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
38.2% of Energy Transfer shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Energy Transfer shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Enterprise Products Partners has a net margin of 11.12% compared to Enterprise Products Partners' net margin of 4.85%. Energy Transfer's return on equity of 19.65% beat Enterprise Products Partners' return on equity.
Enterprise Products Partners received 560 more outperform votes than Energy Transfer when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.44% of users gave Enterprise Products Partners an outperform vote while only 71.43% of users gave Energy Transfer an outperform vote.
Enterprise Products Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
In the previous week, Energy Transfer had 4 more articles in the media than Enterprise Products Partners. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Energy Transfer and 15 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners. Enterprise Products Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Energy Transfer's score of 0.64 indicating that Energy Transfer is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Energy Transfer pays an annual dividend of $1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Energy Transfer pays out 115.6% 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 pays out 81.7% 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 has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Enterprise Products Partners has raised its dividend for 27 consecutive years.
Energy Transfer presently has a consensus target price of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.78%. Enterprise Products Partners has a consensus target price of $32.58, suggesting a potential upside of 12.12%. Given Enterprise Products Partners' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Energy Transfer is more favorable than Enterprise Products Partners.
Summary
Enterprise Products Partners beats Energy Transfer on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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