SUN vs. EC, CTRA, WDS, PR, OVV, CHK, VNOM, HESM, AR, and CHRD
Should you be buying Sunoco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sunoco include Ecopetrol (EC), Coterra Energy (CTRA), Woodside Energy Group (WDS), Permian Resources (PR), Ovintiv (OVV), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), Viper Energy (VNOM), Hess Midstream (HESM), Antero Resources (AR), and Chord Energy (CHRD). These companies are all part of the "petroleum and natural gas" industry.
Sunoco (NYSE:SUN) and Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.
Sunoco presently has a consensus price target of $62.14, indicating a potential upside of 15.98%. Ecopetrol has a consensus price target of $10.90, indicating a potential upside of 19.00%. Given Ecopetrol's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ecopetrol is more favorable than Sunoco.
Sunoco received 197 more outperform votes than Ecopetrol when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.39% of users gave Sunoco an outperform vote while only 53.19% of users gave Ecopetrol an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Sunoco had 1 more articles in the media than Ecopetrol. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Sunoco and 6 mentions for Ecopetrol. Sunoco's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Ecopetrol's score of 0.01 indicating that Sunoco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sunoco pays an annual dividend of $3.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Ecopetrol pays an annual dividend of $2.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 29.1%. Sunoco pays out 78.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ecopetrol pays out 116.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
24.3% of Sunoco shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ecopetrol has higher revenue and earnings than Sunoco. Ecopetrol is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sunoco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sunoco has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ecopetrol has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ecopetrol has a net margin of 14.35% compared to Sunoco's net margin of 3.80%. Sunoco's return on equity of 41.76% beat Ecopetrol's return on equity.
Summary
Sunoco beats Ecopetrol on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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