COP vs. BP, EQNR, MPC, PSX, VLO, SU, CVX, XOM, TTE, and CNQ
Should you be buying ConocoPhillips stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ConocoPhillips include BP (BP), Equinor ASA (EQNR), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Phillips 66 (PSX), Valero Energy (VLO), Suncor Energy (SU), Chevron (CVX), Exxon Mobil (XOM), TotalEnergies (TTE), and Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) and BP (NYSE:BP) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
BP received 132 more outperform votes than ConocoPhillips when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.93% of users gave BP an outperform vote while only 66.29% of users gave ConocoPhillips an outperform vote.
ConocoPhillips has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BP has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
82.4% of ConocoPhillips shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.0% of BP shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of ConocoPhillips shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of BP shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ConocoPhillips pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. BP pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. ConocoPhillips pays out 25.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BP pays out 33.8% 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.
BP has higher revenue and earnings than ConocoPhillips. BP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ConocoPhillips, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ConocoPhillips presently has a consensus price target of $143.24, suggesting a potential upside of 10.75%. BP has a consensus price target of $43.72, suggesting a potential upside of 12.37%. Given BP's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe BP is more favorable than ConocoPhillips.
ConocoPhillips has a net margin of 18.71% compared to BP's net margin of 7.15%. ConocoPhillips' return on equity of 22.08% beat BP's return on equity.
In the previous week, BP had 2 more articles in the media than ConocoPhillips. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for BP and 25 mentions for ConocoPhillips. ConocoPhillips' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat BP's score of 0.11 indicating that ConocoPhillips is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
ConocoPhillips beats BP on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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