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OXY vs. FANG, KHC, BRK.A, BRK.B, CVX, DVN, EOG, MPC, WES, and XOM

Should you be buying Occidental Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Occidental Petroleum include Diamondback Energy (FANG), Kraft Heinz (KHC), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), Chevron (CVX), Devon Energy (DVN), EOG Resources (EOG), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Western Midstream Partners (WES), and Exxon Mobil (XOM).

Occidental Petroleum vs. Its Competitors

Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) and Diamondback Energy (NASDAQ:FANG) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Occidental Petroleum currently has a consensus price target of $54.65, suggesting a potential upside of 19.62%. Diamondback Energy has a consensus price target of $193.17, suggesting a potential upside of 41.12%. Given Diamondback Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Diamondback Energy is more favorable than Occidental Petroleum.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Occidental Petroleum
2 Sell rating(s)
17 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.09
Diamondback Energy
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
21 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.04

Diamondback Energy has a net margin of 27.25% compared to Occidental Petroleum's net margin of 8.79%. Occidental Petroleum's return on equity of 13.78% beat Diamondback Energy's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Occidental Petroleum8.79% 13.78% 4.35%
Diamondback Energy 27.25%9.48%5.63%

Diamondback Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Occidental Petroleum. Diamondback Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Occidental Petroleum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Occidental Petroleum$26.88B1.67$3.06B$1.6927.04
Diamondback Energy$11.07B3.58$3.34B$14.079.73

Occidental Petroleum pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Diamondback Energy pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Occidental Petroleum pays out 56.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diamondback Energy pays out 28.4% 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 raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Diamondback Energy has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years. Diamondback Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

88.7% of Occidental Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of Diamondback Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Occidental Petroleum shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Diamondback Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Occidental Petroleum has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diamondback Energy has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Diamondback Energy had 16 more articles in the media than Occidental Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Diamondback Energy and 11 mentions for Occidental Petroleum. Diamondback Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Occidental Petroleum's score of 1.35 indicating that Diamondback Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Occidental Petroleum
9 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Diamondback Energy
23 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Summary

Diamondback Energy beats Occidental Petroleum on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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OXY vs. The Competition

MetricOccidental PetroleumOIL IndustryEnergy SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$45.30B$12.80B$7.88B$21.59B
Dividend Yield2.09%3.97%10.78%3.48%
P/E Ratio27.0423.4139.9129.75
Price / Sales1.676.46941.8368.12
Price / Cash3.8420.1536.2525.00
Price / Book1.642.343.904.58
Net Income$3.06B$794.69M$4.29B$999.94M
7 Day Performance-0.44%0.01%0.60%0.68%
1 Month Performance2.21%-1.27%2.76%3.10%
1 Year Performance-10.50%-4.53%15.76%14.39%

Occidental Petroleum Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
OXY
Occidental Petroleum
4.5975 of 5 stars
$45.69
-0.7%
$54.65
+19.6%
-10.4%$45.30B$26.88B27.0413,323Positive News
FANG
Diamondback Energy
4.8969 of 5 stars
$137.32
-1.0%
$193.17
+40.7%
-19.9%$39.70B$11.07B9.751,983Positive News
KHC
Kraft Heinz
3.9922 of 5 stars
$26.75
-2.0%
$29.76
+11.3%
-25.8%$31.61B$25.85B-5.9536,000
BRK.A
Berkshire Hathaway
0.7838 of 5 stars
$742,140.01
-1.1%
N/A+9.7%$1.07T$371.43B16.96372,000
BRK.B
Berkshire Hathaway
2.0217 of 5 stars
$494.90
-1.0%
$575.00
+16.2%
+9.5%$1.07T$371.43B16.96392,400Analyst Upgrade
CVX
Chevron
4.6137 of 5 stars
$153.35
-0.2%
$163.95
+6.9%
+12.9%$264.92B$202.79B19.7345,298News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
DVN
Devon Energy
4.7667 of 5 stars
$34.47
-0.8%
$44.15
+28.1%
-13.0%$21.88B$15.94B7.732,300News Coverage
Positive News
EOG
EOG Resources
4.7383 of 5 stars
$117.45
-0.4%
$143.52
+22.2%
0.0%$64.14B$23.70B11.423,150News Coverage
Positive News
MPC
Marathon Petroleum
4.4721 of 5 stars
$180.40
+0.1%
$186.57
+3.4%
+11.6%$54.83B$140.41B26.7618,300News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
WES
Western Midstream Partners
2.1219 of 5 stars
$37.98
-0.2%
$39.60
+4.3%
-1.2%$14.48B$3.61B11.691,511News Coverage
Positive News
XOM
Exxon Mobil
4.8092 of 5 stars
$109.35
+0.1%
$125.00
+14.3%
+0.9%$466.08B$349.59B15.5361,000Trending News
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