EPD vs. CEG, NGG, ET, VST, AEP, TRP, EXC, XEL, VG, and CQP
Should you be buying Enterprise Products Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enterprise Products Partners include Constellation Energy (CEG), National Grid (NGG), Energy Transfer (ET), Vistra (VST), American Electric Power (AEP), TC Energy (TRP), Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), Venture Global (VG), and Cheniere Energy Partners (CQP). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
Enterprise Products Partners vs.
Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) and Constellation Energy (NASDAQ:CEG) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Constellation Energy has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Constellation Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Enterprise Products Partners pays out 80.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Constellation Energy pays out 16.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enterprise Products Partners has raised its dividend for 28 consecutive years and Constellation Energy has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Enterprise Products Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Enterprise Products Partners currently has a consensus target price of $36.67, suggesting a potential upside of 14.78%. Constellation Energy has a consensus target price of $292.86, suggesting a potential upside of 0.63%. Given Enterprise Products Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Enterprise Products Partners is more favorable than Constellation Energy.
Constellation Energy has a net margin of 15.91% compared to Enterprise Products Partners' net margin of 10.49%. Constellation Energy's return on equity of 21.96% beat Enterprise Products Partners' return on equity.
In the previous week, Enterprise Products Partners had 9 more articles in the media than Constellation Energy. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners and 14 mentions for Constellation Energy. Constellation Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Enterprise Products Partners' score of 0.63 indicating that Constellation Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.2% of Constellation Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Constellation Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Enterprise Products Partners received 798 more outperform votes than Constellation Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.18% of users gave Enterprise Products Partners an outperform vote while only 63.37% of users gave Constellation Energy an outperform vote.
Enterprise Products Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Constellation Energy. Enterprise Products Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Constellation Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Enterprise Products Partners beats Constellation Energy on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:EPD) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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