WMB vs. KMI, TRGP, ET, TRP, EPD, WES, OKE, HES, SU, and MPLX
Should you be buying Williams Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Williams Companies include Kinder Morgan (KMI), Targa Resources (TRGP), Energy Transfer (ET), TC Energy (TRP), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Western Midstream Partners (WES), ONEOK (OKE), Hess (HES), Suncor Energy (SU), and Mplx (MPLX). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) and Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMI) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Williams Companies has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinder Morgan has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Williams Companies has a net margin of 29.22% compared to Kinder Morgan's net margin of 16.08%. Williams Companies' return on equity of 16.20% beat Kinder Morgan's return on equity.
In the previous week, Kinder Morgan had 16 more articles in the media than Williams Companies. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Kinder Morgan and 12 mentions for Williams Companies. Kinder Morgan's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Williams Companies' score of 0.83 indicating that Kinder Morgan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
86.4% of Williams Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of Kinder Morgan shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Williams Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Kinder Morgan shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Williams Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Kinder Morgan pays an annual dividend of $1.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Williams Companies pays out 72.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kinder Morgan pays out 102.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Kinder Morgan received 141 more outperform votes than Williams Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.77% of users gave Williams Companies an outperform vote while only 66.97% of users gave Kinder Morgan an outperform vote.
Williams Companies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kinder Morgan. Williams Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kinder Morgan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Williams Companies currently has a consensus price target of $39.22, suggesting a potential upside of 2.26%. Kinder Morgan has a consensus price target of $20.20, suggesting a potential upside of 10.44%. Given Kinder Morgan's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kinder Morgan is more favorable than Williams Companies.
Summary
Williams Companies beats Kinder Morgan on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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