EPD vs. ET, WMB, KMI, TRP, TRGP, PXD, OXY, CEG, VLO, and PSX
Should you be buying Enterprise Products Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enterprise Products Partners include Energy Transfer (ET), Williams Companies (WMB), Kinder Morgan (KMI), TC Energy (TRP), Targa Resources (TRGP), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), Occidental Petroleum (OXY), Constellation Energy (CEG), Valero Energy (VLO), and Phillips 66 (PSX). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) and Energy Transfer (NYSE:ET) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Enterprise Products Partners received 560 more outperform votes than Energy Transfer when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.44% of users gave Enterprise Products Partners an outperform vote while only 71.43% of users gave Energy Transfer an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Enterprise Products Partners and Enterprise Products Partners both had 21 articles in the media. Energy Transfer's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Enterprise Products Partners' score of 0.87 indicating that Energy Transfer is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.2% of Energy Transfer shares are held by institutional investors. 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Energy Transfer shares are held by 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.
Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Energy Transfer pays an annual dividend of $1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Enterprise Products Partners pays out 81.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Energy Transfer pays out 115.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Energy Transfer has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Enterprise Products Partners currently has a consensus target price of $32.58, suggesting a potential upside of 12.82%. Energy Transfer has a consensus target price of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.14%. Given Energy Transfer's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Energy Transfer is more favorable than Enterprise Products Partners.
Enterprise Products Partners has a net margin of 11.12% compared to Energy Transfer's net margin of 4.85%. Enterprise Products Partners' return on equity of 19.65% beat Energy Transfer's return on equity.
Enterprise Products Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Energy Transfer. Enterprise Products Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Energy Transfer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Enterprise Products Partners beats Energy Transfer on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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