FANG vs. COP, EOG, EQT, DVN, RRC, CRK, MTDR, SM, KOS, and SD
Should you be buying Diamondback Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diamondback Energy include ConocoPhillips (COP), EOG Resources (EOG), EQT (EQT), Devon Energy (DVN), Range Resources (RRC), Comstock Resources (CRK), Matador Resources (MTDR), SM Energy (SM), Kosmos Energy (KOS), and SandRidge Energy (SD). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas exploration & production" industry.
Diamondback Energy vs.
ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) and Diamondback Energy (NASDAQ:FANG) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
ConocoPhillips pays an annual dividend of $3.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Diamondback Energy pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. ConocoPhillips pays out 39.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diamondback Energy pays out 24.5% 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. Diamondback Energy has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years.
ConocoPhillips currently has a consensus target price of $121.95, suggesting a potential upside of 35.64%. Diamondback Energy has a consensus target price of $194.09, suggesting a potential upside of 39.13%. Given Diamondback Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Diamondback Energy is more favorable than ConocoPhillips.
ConocoPhillips has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diamondback Energy has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Diamondback Energy received 311 more outperform votes than ConocoPhillips when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.37% of users gave Diamondback Energy an outperform vote while only 66.83% of users gave ConocoPhillips an outperform vote.
82.4% of ConocoPhillips shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of Diamondback Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of ConocoPhillips shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Diamondback Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, ConocoPhillips had 28 more articles in the media than Diamondback Energy. MarketBeat recorded 63 mentions for ConocoPhillips and 35 mentions for Diamondback Energy. Diamondback Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat ConocoPhillips' score of 1.02 indicating that Diamondback Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Diamondback Energy has a net margin of 33.64% compared to ConocoPhillips' net margin of 16.23%. ConocoPhillips' return on equity of 17.26% beat Diamondback Energy's return on equity.
ConocoPhillips has higher revenue and earnings than Diamondback Energy. Diamondback Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ConocoPhillips, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Diamondback Energy beats ConocoPhillips on 15 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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