USAC vs. TGS, AROC, KGS, NGL, ETRN, KNTK, DTM, ENLC, AM, and NS
Should you be buying USA Compression Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of USA Compression Partners include Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), Archrock (AROC), Kodiak Gas Services (KGS), NGL Energy Partners (NGL), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), Kinetik (KNTK), DT Midstream (DTM), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Antero Midstream (AM), and NuStar Energy (NS). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Transportadora de Gas del Sur (NYSE:TGS) and USA Compression Partners (NYSE:USAC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
USA Compression Partners has a consensus target price of $24.75, suggesting a potential downside of 0.12%. Given Transportadora de Gas del Sur's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe USA Compression Partners is more favorable than Transportadora de Gas del Sur.
USA Compression Partners received 5 more outperform votes than Transportadora de Gas del Sur when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.86% of users gave Transportadora de Gas del Sur an outperform vote while only 60.04% of users gave USA Compression Partners an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Transportadora de Gas del Sur had 2 more articles in the media than USA Compression Partners. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Transportadora de Gas del Sur and 3 mentions for USA Compression Partners. Transportadora de Gas del Sur's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat USA Compression Partners' score of 0.09 indicating that USA Compression Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
3.3% of Transportadora de Gas del Sur shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.8% of USA Compression Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Transportadora de Gas del Sur has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, USA Compression Partners has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
USA Compression Partners has a net margin of 8.07% compared to USA Compression Partners' net margin of 4.16%. USA Compression Partners' return on equity of 1.88% beat Transportadora de Gas del Sur's return on equity.
Transportadora de Gas del Sur has higher revenue and earnings than USA Compression Partners. Transportadora de Gas del Sur is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than USA Compression Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
USA Compression Partners beats Transportadora de Gas del Sur on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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