SUN vs. EXE, WDS, CVE, PBA, CTRA, EC, YPF, AR, VNOM, and PR
Should you be buying Sunoco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sunoco include Chesapeake Energy (EXE), Woodside Energy Group (WDS), Cenovus Energy (CVE), Pembina Pipeline (PBA), Coterra Energy (CTRA), Ecopetrol (EC), YPF Sociedad Anónima (YPF), Antero Resources (AR), Viper Energy (VNOM), and Permian Resources (PR). These companies are all part of the "petroleum and natural gas" industry.
Sunoco vs.
Chesapeake Energy (NASDAQ:EXE) and Sunoco (NYSE:SUN) are both energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Chesapeake Energy presently has a consensus target price of $126.79, suggesting a potential upside of 12.63%. Sunoco has a consensus target price of $64.80, suggesting a potential upside of 21.82%. Given Sunoco's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sunoco is more favorable than Chesapeake Energy.
Chesapeake Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Sunoco pays an annual dividend of $3.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Chesapeake Energy pays out -42.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sunoco pays out 64.7% 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. Sunoco has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Sunoco is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Sunoco had 1 more articles in the media than Chesapeake Energy. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Sunoco and 14 mentions for Chesapeake Energy. Chesapeake Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Sunoco's score of 0.07 indicating that Chesapeake Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
97.9% of Chesapeake Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.3% of Sunoco shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Chesapeake Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Chesapeake Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sunoco. Chesapeake Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sunoco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chesapeake Energy has a net margin of 6.07% compared to Sunoco's net margin of 3.85%. Sunoco's return on equity of 22.52% beat Chesapeake Energy's return on equity.
Chesapeake Energy has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sunoco has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sunoco received 470 more outperform votes than Chesapeake Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.00% of users gave Chesapeake Energy an outperform vote while only 60.77% of users gave Sunoco an outperform vote.
Summary
Chesapeake Energy beats Sunoco on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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