BP vs. SHEL, WDS, TTE, WG, QED, ECHO, DCC, KOS, HBR, and ENOG
Should you be buying BP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BP include Shell (SHEL), Woodside Energy Group (WDS), TotalEnergies (TTE), John Wood Group (WG), Quadrise (QED), Echo Energy (ECHO), DCC (DCC), Kosmos Energy (KOS), Harbour Energy (HBR), and Energean (ENOG). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Shell (LON:SHEL) and BP (LON:BP) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.
BP has a net margin of 7.31% compared to BP's net margin of 6.11%. Shell's return on equity of 18.85% beat BP's return on equity.
36.5% of Shell shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.8% of BP shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Shell shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of BP shares are held by 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.
BP received 1637 more outperform votes than Shell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.45% of users gave BP an outperform vote while only 26.79% of users gave Shell an outperform vote.
Shell has higher revenue and earnings than BP. BP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Shell had 9 more articles in the media than BP. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Shell and 5 mentions for BP. Shell's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat BP's score of 0.16 indicating that BP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Shell presently has a consensus target price of GBX 3,011, indicating a potential upside of 14.51%. BP has a consensus target price of GBX 632.63, indicating a potential upside of 28.37%. Given Shell's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BP is more favorable than Shell.
Shell pays an annual dividend of GBX 108 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. BP pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Shell pays out 4,821.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. BP pays out 3,235.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. BP is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Shell has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BP has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
BP beats Shell on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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