OKE vs. WMB, HES, SU, MPLX, KMI, ET, GEV, CVE, VLO, and E
Should you be buying ONEOK stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ONEOK include Williams Companies (WMB), Hess (HES), Suncor Energy (SU), Mplx (MPLX), Kinder Morgan (KMI), Energy Transfer (ET), GE Vernova (GEV), Cenovus Energy (CVE), Valero Energy (VLO), and ENI (E). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) and ONEOK (NYSE:OKE) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
86.4% of Williams Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.1% of ONEOK shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Williams Companies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of ONEOK shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Williams Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. ONEOK pays an annual dividend of $3.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Williams Companies pays out 72.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ONEOK pays out 71.4% 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. Williams Companies has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years and ONEOK has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. ONEOK is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Williams Companies presently has a consensus target price of $39.22, suggesting a potential downside of 0.10%. ONEOK has a consensus target price of $82.25, suggesting a potential upside of 1.47%. Given Williams Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ONEOK is more favorable than Williams Companies.
In the previous week, ONEOK had 3 more articles in the media than Williams Companies. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for ONEOK and 10 mentions for Williams Companies. ONEOK's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Williams Companies' score of 0.87 indicating that Williams Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Williams Companies has a net margin of 29.22% compared to Williams Companies' net margin of 15.04%. Williams Companies' return on equity of 22.57% beat ONEOK's return on equity.
Williams Companies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ONEOK. ONEOK is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Williams Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Williams Companies has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ONEOK has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Williams Companies received 148 more outperform votes than ONEOK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.77% of users gave Williams Companies an outperform vote while only 57.58% of users gave ONEOK an outperform vote.
Summary
ONEOK beats Williams Companies on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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