ETRN vs. KNTK, DTM, ENLC, AM, AROC, USAC, TGS, KGS, WES, and SUN
Should you be buying Equitrans Midstream stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equitrans Midstream include Kinetik (KNTK), DT Midstream (DTM), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Antero Midstream (AM), Archrock (AROC), USA Compression Partners (USAC), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), Kodiak Gas Services (KGS), Western Midstream Partners (WES), and Sunoco (SUN). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Kinetik (NASDAQ:KNTK) and Equitrans Midstream (NYSE:ETRN) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Equitrans Midstream has a net margin of 30.89% compared to Equitrans Midstream's net margin of 28.57%. Kinetik's return on equity of 30.41% beat Equitrans Midstream's return on equity.
21.1% of Kinetik shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Equitrans Midstream shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Kinetik shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Equitrans Midstream shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kinetik has a beta of 2.8, meaning that its share price is 180% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equitrans Midstream has a beta of 1.97, meaning that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kinetik presently has a consensus price target of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.36%. Equitrans Midstream has a consensus price target of $10.86, suggesting a potential downside of 20.02%. Given Equitrans Midstream's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Kinetik is more favorable than Equitrans Midstream.
Equitrans Midstream has higher revenue and earnings than Kinetik. Equitrans Midstream is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kinetik, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kinetik pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Equitrans Midstream pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Kinetik pays out 132.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Equitrans Midstream pays out 67.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Kinetik and Kinetik both had 15 articles in the media. Kinetik's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Equitrans Midstream's score of 0.42 indicating that Equitrans Midstream is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Equitrans Midstream received 8 more outperform votes than Kinetik when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 36.11% of users gave Kinetik an outperform vote while only 29.58% of users gave Equitrans Midstream an outperform vote.
Summary
Kinetik beats Equitrans Midstream on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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