AROC vs. USAC, TGS, KGS, ETRN, KNTK, DTM, ENLC, AM, SEDG, and BTU
Should you be buying Archrock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Archrock include USA Compression Partners (USAC), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), Kodiak Gas Services (KGS), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), Kinetik (KNTK), DT Midstream (DTM), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Antero Midstream (AM), SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG), and Peabody Energy (BTU). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Archrock (NYSE:AROC) and USA Compression Partners (NYSE:USAC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Archrock pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. USA Compression Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Archrock pays out 98.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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.
95.5% of Archrock shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.8% of USA Compression Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Archrock shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Archrock received 67 more outperform votes than USA Compression Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.00% of users gave Archrock an outperform vote while only 60.04% of users gave USA Compression Partners an outperform vote.
Archrock has a net margin of 10.60% compared to USA Compression Partners' net margin of 8.07%. Archrock's return on equity of 12.63% beat USA Compression Partners' return on equity.
Archrock has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, USA Compression Partners has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Archrock had 4 more articles in the media than USA Compression Partners. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Archrock and 2 mentions for USA Compression Partners. Archrock's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat USA Compression Partners' score of 0.45 indicating that Archrock is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Archrock presently has a consensus target price of $17.67, indicating a potential downside of 10.91%. USA Compression Partners has a consensus target price of $24.75, indicating a potential downside of 0.12%. Given USA Compression Partners' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe USA Compression Partners is more favorable than Archrock.
Archrock has higher revenue and earnings than USA Compression Partners. Archrock is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than USA Compression Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Archrock beats USA Compression Partners on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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