EQNR vs. MPC, PSX, BP, VLO, SU, HES, COP, CVX, CNQ, and EOG
Should you be buying Equinor ASA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equinor ASA include Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Phillips 66 (PSX), BP (BP), Valero Energy (VLO), Suncor Energy (SU), Hess (HES), ConocoPhillips (COP), Chevron (CVX), Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ), and EOG Resources (EOG). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC) and Equinor ASA (NYSE:EQNR) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Marathon Petroleum pays an annual dividend of $3.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Equinor ASA pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Marathon Petroleum pays out 14.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Equinor ASA pays out 25.1% 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. Marathon Petroleum has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Marathon Petroleum has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equinor ASA has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Marathon Petroleum had 3 more articles in the media than Equinor ASA. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Marathon Petroleum and 13 mentions for Equinor ASA. Equinor ASA's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Marathon Petroleum's score of 0.28 indicating that Marathon Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Marathon Petroleum currently has a consensus target price of $193.77, indicating a potential downside of 2.69%. Equinor ASA has a consensus target price of $28.25, indicating a potential upside of 4.26%. Given Marathon Petroleum's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Equinor ASA is more favorable than Marathon Petroleum.
Marathon Petroleum received 807 more outperform votes than Equinor ASA when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.57% of users gave Marathon Petroleum an outperform vote while only 55.31% of users gave Equinor ASA an outperform vote.
Equinor ASA has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Marathon Petroleum. Equinor ASA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marathon Petroleum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Equinor ASA has a net margin of 11.09% compared to Equinor ASA's net margin of 6.44%. Equinor ASA's return on equity of 30.58% beat Marathon Petroleum's return on equity.
76.8% of Marathon Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.5% of Equinor ASA shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Marathon Petroleum shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Equinor ASA shares are held 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.
Summary
Marathon Petroleum beats Equinor ASA on 17 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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