PSX vs. MPC, VLO, SU, EQNR, BP, COP, ENB, PXD, SLB, and EPD
Should you be buying Phillips 66 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Phillips 66 include Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Valero Energy (VLO), Suncor Energy (SU), Equinor ASA (EQNR), BP (BP), ConocoPhillips (COP), Enbridge (ENB), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), Schlumberger (SLB), and Enterprise Products Partners (EPD). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC) and Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.
Marathon Petroleum received 221 more outperform votes than Phillips 66 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.57% of users gave Marathon Petroleum an outperform vote while only 60.92% of users gave Phillips 66 an outperform vote.
Marathon Petroleum pays an annual dividend of $3.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Phillips 66 pays an annual dividend of $4.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Marathon Petroleum pays out 14.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Phillips 66 pays out 27.1% 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. Marathon Petroleum has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Phillips 66 has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Phillips 66 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Marathon Petroleum currently has a consensus target price of $193.77, indicating a potential downside of 2.78%. Phillips 66 has a consensus target price of $158.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.36%. Given Marathon Petroleum's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Phillips 66 is more favorable than Marathon Petroleum.
76.8% of Marathon Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.9% of Phillips 66 shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Marathon Petroleum shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Phillips 66 shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Marathon Petroleum has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Phillips 66 has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Marathon Petroleum has a net margin of 6.44% compared to Marathon Petroleum's net margin of 4.68%. Phillips 66's return on equity of 30.58% beat Marathon Petroleum's return on equity.
Marathon Petroleum has higher revenue and earnings than Phillips 66. Marathon Petroleum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Phillips 66, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Phillips 66 had 1 more articles in the media than Marathon Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Phillips 66 and 14 mentions for Marathon Petroleum. Phillips 66's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Marathon Petroleum's score of 0.71 indicating that Marathon Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Marathon Petroleum beats Phillips 66 on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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