ERF vs. MRO, OVV, PR, CHK, APA, AR, RRC, SWN, MTDR, and HESM
Should you be buying Enerplus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enerplus include Marathon Oil (MRO), Ovintiv (OVV), Permian Resources (PR), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), APA (APA), Antero Resources (AR), Range Resources (RRC), Southwestern Energy (SWN), Matador Resources (MTDR), and Hess Midstream (HESM). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Enerplus (NYSE:ERF) and Marathon Oil (NYSE:MRO) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and dividends.
Enerplus currently has a consensus target price of $21.87, suggesting a potential upside of 8.86%. Marathon Oil has a consensus target price of $32.81, suggesting a potential upside of 13.28%. Given Marathon Oil's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Marathon Oil is more favorable than Enerplus.
58.4% of Enerplus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.2% of Marathon Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Enerplus shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Marathon Oil shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Enerplus has a net margin of 24.09% compared to Marathon Oil's net margin of 21.83%. Enerplus' return on equity of 33.88% beat Marathon Oil's return on equity.
Enerplus has a beta of 1.97, meaning that its stock price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marathon Oil has a beta of 2.22, meaning that its stock price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Enerplus pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Marathon Oil pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Enerplus pays out 14.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Marathon Oil pays out 18.2% 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.
Marathon Oil has higher revenue and earnings than Enerplus. Enerplus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marathon Oil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Marathon Oil had 28 more articles in the media than Enerplus. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Marathon Oil and 7 mentions for Enerplus. Marathon Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Enerplus' score of 0.22 indicating that Marathon Oil is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Marathon Oil received 529 more outperform votes than Enerplus when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.92% of users gave Marathon Oil an outperform vote while only 61.61% of users gave Enerplus an outperform vote.
Summary
Marathon Oil beats Enerplus on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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