SM vs. MRO, EQT, MTDR, RRC, SWN, CRK, KOS, SBOW, EGY, and BRY
Should you be buying SM Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SM Energy include Marathon Oil (MRO), EQT (EQT), Matador Resources (MTDR), Range Resources (RRC), Southwestern Energy (SWN), Comstock Resources (CRK), Kosmos Energy (KOS), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), VAALCO Energy (EGY), and Berry (BRY). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas exploration & production" industry.
Marathon Oil (NYSE:MRO) and SM Energy (NYSE:SM) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, earnings and profitability.
SM Energy has a net margin of 31.80% compared to SM Energy's net margin of 21.83%. Marathon Oil's return on equity of 20.10% beat SM Energy's return on equity.
Marathon Oil pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. SM Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Marathon Oil pays out 18.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SM Energy pays out 11.3% 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.
Marathon Oil currently has a consensus target price of $32.14, indicating a potential upside of 14.99%. SM Energy has a consensus target price of $54.44, indicating a potential upside of 18.20%. Given Marathon Oil's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SM Energy is more favorable than Marathon Oil.
Marathon Oil has a beta of 2.19, meaning that its stock price is 119% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SM Energy has a beta of 4.2, meaning that its stock price is 320% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SM Energy had 10 more articles in the media than Marathon Oil. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for SM Energy and 12 mentions for Marathon Oil. Marathon Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat SM Energy's score of 0.72 indicating that SM Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Marathon Oil received 218 more outperform votes than SM Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.92% of users gave Marathon Oil an outperform vote while only 65.36% of users gave SM Energy an outperform vote.
77.2% of Marathon Oil shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.6% of SM Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Marathon Oil shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of SM Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Marathon Oil has higher revenue and earnings than SM Energy. SM Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marathon Oil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
SM Energy beats Marathon Oil on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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