NS vs. DINO, PAGP, DKL, GEL, ENB, MPLX, PAA, APA, AR, and YPF
Should you be buying NuStar Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NuStar Energy include HF Sinclair (DINO), Plains GP (PAGP), Delek Logistics Partners (DKL), Genesis Energy (GEL), Enbridge (ENB), Mplx (MPLX), Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), APA (APA), Antero Resources (AR), and YPF Sociedad Anónima (YPF). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
NuStar Energy (NYSE:NS) and HF Sinclair (NYSE:DINO) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
NuStar Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. HF Sinclair pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. NuStar Energy pays out 225.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. HF Sinclair pays out 24.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
63.1% of NuStar Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.3% of HF Sinclair shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of NuStar Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of HF Sinclair shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
NuStar Energy has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HF Sinclair has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NuStar Energy has a net margin of 12.90% compared to HF Sinclair's net margin of 4.94%. NuStar Energy's return on equity of 88.49% beat HF Sinclair's return on equity.
HF Sinclair has higher revenue and earnings than NuStar Energy. HF Sinclair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NuStar Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NuStar Energy currently has a consensus target price of $19.80, suggesting a potential downside of 9.84%. HF Sinclair has a consensus target price of $64.92, suggesting a potential upside of 17.54%. Given HF Sinclair's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe HF Sinclair is more favorable than NuStar Energy.
NuStar Energy received 370 more outperform votes than HF Sinclair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.87% of users gave NuStar Energy an outperform vote while only 29.87% of users gave HF Sinclair an outperform vote.
In the previous week, HF Sinclair had 5 more articles in the media than NuStar Energy. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for HF Sinclair and 3 mentions for NuStar Energy. HF Sinclair's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat NuStar Energy's score of 0.27 indicating that HF Sinclair is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
HF Sinclair beats NuStar Energy on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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