WMB vs. KMI, TRGP, ET, TRP, EPD, WES, OKE, HES, SU, and MPLX
Should you be buying Williams Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Williams Companies include Kinder Morgan (KMI), Targa Resources (TRGP), Energy Transfer (ET), TC Energy (TRP), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Western Midstream Partners (WES), ONEOK (OKE), Hess (HES), Suncor Energy (SU), and Mplx (MPLX). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMI) and Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
Kinder Morgan received 141 more outperform votes than Williams Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.77% of users gave Williams Companies an outperform vote while only 66.97% of users gave Kinder Morgan an outperform vote.
Kinder Morgan presently has a consensus price target of $20.20, indicating a potential upside of 8.14%. Williams Companies has a consensus price target of $39.22, indicating a potential downside of 0.10%. Given Williams Companies' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Kinder Morgan is more favorable than Williams Companies.
Kinder Morgan has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Williams Companies has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
62.5% of Kinder Morgan shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.4% of Williams Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.6% of Kinder Morgan shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Williams Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Kinder Morgan pays an annual dividend of $1.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Williams Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Kinder Morgan pays out 102.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Williams Companies pays out 72.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kinder Morgan has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Williams Companies has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years.
Williams Companies has a net margin of 29.22% compared to Williams Companies' net margin of 16.08%. Kinder Morgan's return on equity of 16.20% beat Williams Companies' return on equity.
Williams Companies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kinder Morgan. Williams Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kinder Morgan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kinder Morgan had 21 more articles in the media than Williams Companies. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Kinder Morgan and 9 mentions for Williams Companies. Williams Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Kinder Morgan's score of 1.05 indicating that Kinder Morgan is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Williams Companies beats Kinder Morgan on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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