LNG vs. CQP, FANG, TRP, HAL, CVE, DVN, KMI, BKR, MPLX, and OKE
Should you be buying Cheniere Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cheniere Energy include Cheniere Energy Partners (CQP), Diamondback Energy (FANG), TC Energy (TRP), Halliburton (HAL), Cenovus Energy (CVE), Devon Energy (DVN), Kinder Morgan (KMI), Baker Hughes (BKR), Mplx (MPLX), and ONEOK (OKE).
Cheniere Energy Partners (NYSE:CQP) and Cheniere Energy (NYSE:LNG) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
Cheniere Energy has a net margin of 48.45% compared to Cheniere Energy's net margin of 44.02%. Cheniere Energy Partners' return on equity of 69.52% beat Cheniere Energy's return on equity.
Cheniere Energy Partners has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cheniere Energy has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
46.6% of Cheniere Energy Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Cheniere Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Cheniere Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cheniere Energy Partners presently has a consensus price target of $49.20, suggesting a potential upside of 1.32%. Cheniere Energy has a consensus price target of $193.30, suggesting a potential upside of 20.46%. Given Cheniere Energy Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cheniere Energy is more favorable than Cheniere Energy Partners.
Cheniere Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Cheniere Energy Partners. Cheniere Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cheniere Energy Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cheniere Energy Partners pays an annual dividend of $3.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Cheniere Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Cheniere Energy Partners pays out 44.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cheniere Energy pays out 4.3% 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. Cheniere Energy Partners has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Cheniere Energy has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Cheniere Energy received 654 more outperform votes than Cheniere Energy Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.48% of users gave Cheniere Energy an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Cheniere Energy Partners an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cheniere Energy had 9 more articles in the media than Cheniere Energy Partners. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Cheniere Energy and 9 mentions for Cheniere Energy Partners. Cheniere Energy Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Cheniere Energy's score of 0.24 indicating that Cheniere Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Cheniere Energy beats Cheniere Energy Partners on 18 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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