NS vs. PAGP, DKL, GEL, DINO, ARCH, BTU, AROC, FLNC, USAC, and HCC
Should you be buying NuStar Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NuStar Energy include Plains GP (PAGP), Delek Logistics Partners (DKL), Genesis Energy (GEL), HF Sinclair (DINO), Arch Resources (ARCH), Peabody Energy (BTU), Archrock (AROC), Fluence Energy (FLNC), USA Compression Partners (USAC), and Warrior Met Coal (HCC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Plains GP (NYSE:PAGP) and NuStar Energy (NYSE:NS) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Plains GP received 41 more outperform votes than NuStar Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.57% of users gave Plains GP an outperform vote while only 56.37% of users gave NuStar Energy an outperform vote.
Plains GP currently has a consensus target price of $17.43, suggesting a potential downside of 4.50%. NuStar Energy has a consensus target price of $19.43, suggesting a potential downside of 16.62%. Given NuStar Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Plains GP is more favorable than NuStar Energy.
NuStar Energy has a net margin of 16.75% compared to NuStar Energy's net margin of 0.41%. Plains GP's return on equity of 107.61% beat NuStar Energy's return on equity.
88.3% of Plains GP shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.1% of NuStar Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 9.8% of Plains GP shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of NuStar Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Plains GP pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. NuStar Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Plains GP pays out 124.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NuStar Energy pays out 225.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Plains GP is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, NuStar Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Plains GP. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for NuStar Energy and 5 mentions for Plains GP. NuStar Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Plains GP's score of 0.84 indicating that Plains GP is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NuStar Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Plains GP. Plains GP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NuStar Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Plains GP has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NuStar Energy has a beta of 1.7, meaning that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Plains GP beats NuStar Energy on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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