XOM vs. CVX, OXY, HES, MUR, COP, BP, EQNR, MPC, PSX, and VLO
Should you be buying Exxon Mobil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Exxon Mobil include Chevron (CVX), Occidental Petroleum (OXY), Hess (HES), Murphy Oil (MUR), ConocoPhillips (COP), BP (BP), Equinor ASA (EQNR), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Phillips 66 (PSX), and Valero Energy (VLO). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Chevron (NYSE:CVX) and Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Chevron has a net margin of 10.21% compared to Chevron's net margin of 9.62%. Chevron's return on equity of 16.75% beat Exxon Mobil's return on equity.
72.4% of Chevron shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.8% of Exxon Mobil shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Chevron shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Exxon Mobil shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Chevron presently has a consensus price target of $186.95, suggesting a potential upside of 19.37%. Exxon Mobil has a consensus price target of $133.71, suggesting a potential upside of 17.40%. Given Exxon Mobil's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Chevron is more favorable than Exxon Mobil.
Chevron pays an annual dividend of $6.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Exxon Mobil pays an annual dividend of $3.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Chevron pays out 60.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Exxon Mobil pays out 46.6% 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. Chevron has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Chevron is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Exxon Mobil received 156 more outperform votes than Chevron when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.03% of users gave Chevron an outperform vote while only 59.77% of users gave Exxon Mobil an outperform vote.
Exxon Mobil has higher revenue and earnings than Chevron. Exxon Mobil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chevron, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Chevron had 7 more articles in the media than Exxon Mobil. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Chevron and 25 mentions for Exxon Mobil. Chevron's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Exxon Mobil's score of 0.64 indicating that Exxon Mobil is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chevron has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Exxon Mobil has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Chevron beats Exxon Mobil on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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