ET vs. EPD, CEG, NGG, AEP, TRP, EXC, VST, XEL, CQP, and VG
Should you be buying Energy Transfer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Energy Transfer include Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Constellation Energy (CEG), National Grid (NGG), American Electric Power (AEP), TC Energy (TRP), Exelon (EXC), Vistra (VST), Xcel Energy (XEL), Cheniere Energy Partners (CQP), and Venture Global (VG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
Energy Transfer vs.
Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) and Energy Transfer (NYSE:ET) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Enterprise Products Partners has a net margin of 10.49% compared to Energy Transfer's net margin of 5.74%. Enterprise Products Partners' return on equity of 20.48% beat Energy Transfer's return on equity.
Enterprise Products Partners received 559 more outperform votes than Energy Transfer when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.27% of users gave Enterprise Products Partners an outperform vote while only 72.06% of users gave Energy Transfer an outperform vote.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Energy Transfer shares are held by company 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 $2.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Energy Transfer pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Enterprise Products Partners pays out 79.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Energy Transfer pays out 101.6% 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 raised its dividend for 27 consecutive years.
Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Energy Transfer has a beta of 1.72, indicating that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Enterprise Products Partners had 1 more articles in the media than Energy Transfer. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners and 33 mentions for Energy Transfer. Energy Transfer's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Enterprise Products Partners' score of 1.15 indicating that Energy Transfer is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Enterprise Products Partners currently has a consensus price target of $35.90, suggesting a potential upside of 5.28%. Energy Transfer has a consensus price target of $21.55, suggesting a potential upside of 14.40%. Given Energy Transfer's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Energy Transfer is more favorable than Enterprise Products Partners.
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 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ET) was last updated on 3/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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