CTRA vs. EC, EQT, MRO, OVV, PR, CHK, APA, AR, DVN, and RRC
Should you be buying Coterra Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coterra Energy include Ecopetrol (EC), EQT (EQT), Marathon Oil (MRO), Ovintiv (OVV), Permian Resources (PR), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), APA (APA), Antero Resources (AR), Devon Energy (DVN), and Range Resources (RRC). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) and Coterra Energy (NYSE:CTRA) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
In the previous week, Coterra Energy had 21 more articles in the media than Ecopetrol. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Coterra Energy and 5 mentions for Ecopetrol. Ecopetrol's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Coterra Energy's score of 0.27 indicating that Coterra Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ecopetrol has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coterra Energy has a beta of 0.21, indicating that its share price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ecopetrol currently has a consensus target price of $11.27, suggesting a potential downside of 3.46%. Coterra Energy has a consensus target price of $32.47, suggesting a potential upside of 14.72%. Given Ecopetrol's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Coterra Energy is more favorable than Ecopetrol.
Ecopetrol pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.9%. Coterra Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Ecopetrol pays out 94.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Coterra Energy pays out 39.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Coterra Energy has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Ecopetrol received 251 more outperform votes than Coterra Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.30% of users gave Ecopetrol an outperform vote while only 37.21% of users gave Coterra Energy an outperform vote.
Coterra Energy has a net margin of 27.48% compared to Coterra Energy's net margin of 14.69%. Coterra Energy's return on equity of 66.73% beat Ecopetrol's return on equity.
Ecopetrol has higher revenue and earnings than Coterra Energy. Ecopetrol is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coterra Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
87.9% of Coterra Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Coterra Energy shares are held by 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.
Summary
Coterra Energy beats Ecopetrol on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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