KGS vs. USAC, TGS, AROC, NGL, ETRN, ENLC, KNTK, DTM, AM, and XPRO
Should you be buying Kodiak Gas Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kodiak Gas Services include USA Compression Partners (USAC), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), Archrock (AROC), NGL Energy Partners (NGL), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Kinetik (KNTK), DT Midstream (DTM), Antero Midstream (AM), and Expro Group (XPRO). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Kodiak Gas Services (NYSE:KGS) and USA Compression Partners (NYSE:USAC) are both mid-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.
In the previous week, Kodiak Gas Services had 6 more articles in the media than USA Compression Partners. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Kodiak Gas Services and 2 mentions for USA Compression Partners. Kodiak Gas Services' average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat USA Compression Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that Kodiak Gas Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
USA Compression Partners received 292 more outperform votes than Kodiak Gas Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.22% of users gave Kodiak Gas Services an outperform vote while only 60.04% of users gave USA Compression Partners an outperform vote.
USA Compression Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kodiak Gas Services.
25.0% of Kodiak Gas Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.8% of USA Compression Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Kodiak Gas Services 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.
USA Compression Partners has a net margin of 8.07% compared to Kodiak Gas Services' net margin of 0.00%. Kodiak Gas Services' return on equity of 0.00% beat USA Compression Partners' return on equity.
Kodiak Gas Services currently has a consensus target price of $26.14, indicating a potential downside of 6.50%. USA Compression Partners has a consensus target price of $24.75, indicating a potential downside of 0.76%. Given USA Compression Partners' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe USA Compression Partners is more favorable than Kodiak Gas Services.
Kodiak Gas Services pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. USA Compression Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. USA Compression Partners pays out 1,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Kodiak Gas Services beats USA Compression Partners on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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