HES vs. OXY, MUR, XOM, CVX, COP, BP, EQNR, MPC, PSX, and SU
Should you be buying Hess stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hess include Occidental Petroleum (OXY), Murphy Oil (MUR), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), ConocoPhillips (COP), BP (BP), Equinor ASA (EQNR), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Phillips 66 (PSX), and Suncor Energy (SU). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Hess vs. Its Competitors
Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) and Hess (NYSE:HES) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Occidental Petroleum received 70 more outperform votes than Hess when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.93% of users gave Occidental Petroleum an outperform vote while only 58.95% of users gave Hess an outperform vote.
Occidental Petroleum pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Hess pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Occidental Petroleum pays out 39.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hess pays out 27.7% 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. Occidental Petroleum has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Hess has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Occidental Petroleum is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Occidental Petroleum has higher revenue and earnings than Hess. Occidental Petroleum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hess, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Occidental Petroleum has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hess has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Occidental Petroleum presently has a consensus target price of $53.14, indicating a potential upside of 18.52%. Hess has a consensus target price of $163.16, indicating a potential upside of 16.11%. Given Occidental Petroleum's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Occidental Petroleum is more favorable than Hess.
Hess has a net margin of 21.27% compared to Occidental Petroleum's net margin of 11.37%. Hess' return on equity of 26.32% beat Occidental Petroleum's return on equity.
88.7% of Occidental Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.5% of Hess shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Occidental Petroleum shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.1% of Hess shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Hess had 5 more articles in the media than Occidental Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Hess and 14 mentions for Occidental Petroleum. Occidental Petroleum's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Hess' score of 0.45 indicating that Occidental Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Occidental Petroleum beats Hess on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:HES) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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