OXY vs. E, PXD, EOG, CVE, CNQ, FANG, DVN, EC, CTRA, and EQT
Should you be buying Occidental Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Occidental Petroleum include ENI (E), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), EOG Resources (EOG), Cenovus Energy (CVE), Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Devon Energy (DVN), Ecopetrol (EC), Coterra Energy (CTRA), and EQT (EQT). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
ENI (NYSE:E) and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and community ranking.
Occidental Petroleum has a net margin of 16.24% compared to Occidental Petroleum's net margin of 5.00%. ENI's return on equity of 20.63% beat Occidental Petroleum's return on equity.
In the previous week, Occidental Petroleum had 14 more articles in the media than ENI. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Occidental Petroleum and 11 mentions for ENI. ENI's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Occidental Petroleum's score of 0.26 indicating that Occidental Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ENI has higher revenue and earnings than Occidental Petroleum. ENI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Occidental Petroleum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ENI pays an annual dividend of $1.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Occidental Petroleum pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. ENI pays out 48.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Occidental Petroleum pays out 22.5% 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. ENI has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Occidental Petroleum has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Occidental Petroleum received 434 more outperform votes than ENI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.34% of users gave Occidental Petroleum an outperform vote while only 54.10% of users gave ENI an outperform vote.
Occidental Petroleum has a consensus price target of $71.94, indicating a potential upside of 6.85%. Given ENI's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Occidental Petroleum is more favorable than ENI.
ENI has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Occidental Petroleum has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
1.2% of ENI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of Occidental Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of ENI shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Occidental Petroleum shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Occidental Petroleum beats ENI on 19 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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