VST vs. EPD, ET, AEP, EXC, XEL, CQP, EBR, WES, LNT, and EVRG
Should you be buying Vistra stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vistra include Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Energy Transfer (ET), American Electric Power (AEP), Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), Cheniere Energy Partners (CQP), Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), Western Midstream Partners (WES), Alliant Energy (LNT), and Evergy (EVRG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) and Vistra (NYSE:VST) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vistra has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Enterprise Products Partners currently has a consensus price target of $32.77, suggesting a potential upside of 9.41%. Vistra has a consensus price target of $87.83, suggesting a potential upside of 23.47%. Given Enterprise Products Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Vistra is more favorable than Enterprise Products Partners.
In the previous week, Enterprise Products Partners had 4 more articles in the media than Vistra. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners and 14 mentions for Vistra. Vistra's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Enterprise Products Partners' score of 0.32 indicating that Enterprise Products Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Enterprise Products Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Vistra. Enterprise Products Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vistra, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of Vistra shares are held by institutional investors. 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Vistra shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Enterprise Products Partners has a net margin of 10.76% compared to Enterprise Products Partners' net margin of 5.66%. Enterprise Products Partners' return on equity of 24.72% beat Vistra's return on equity.
Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Vistra pays an annual dividend of $0.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Enterprise Products Partners pays out 80.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Vistra pays out 53.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enterprise Products Partners has increased its dividend for 27 consecutive years. Enterprise Products Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Enterprise Products Partners received 664 more outperform votes than Vistra when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.44% of users gave Enterprise Products Partners an outperform vote while only 66.51% of users gave Vistra an outperform vote.
Summary
Enterprise Products Partners beats Vistra on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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