ET vs. EPD, WMB, KMI, NGG, TRP, TRGP, WES, AM, DTM, and KNTK
Should you be buying Energy Transfer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Energy Transfer include Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Williams Companies (WMB), Kinder Morgan (KMI), National Grid (NGG), TC Energy (TRP), Targa Resources (TRGP), Western Midstream Partners (WES), Antero Midstream (AM), DT Midstream (DTM), and Kinetik (KNTK). These companies are all part of the "natural gas transmission" industry.
Energy Transfer (NYSE:ET) and Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Energy Transfer currently has a consensus target price of $18.43, suggesting a potential upside of 17.60%. Enterprise Products Partners has a consensus target price of $32.69, suggesting a potential upside of 14.71%. Given Energy Transfer's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Energy Transfer is more favorable than Enterprise Products Partners.
Enterprise Products Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Energy Transfer. Enterprise Products Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Energy Transfer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Enterprise Products Partners has a net margin of 10.76% compared to Energy Transfer's net margin of 4.85%. Enterprise Products Partners' return on equity of 19.73% beat Energy Transfer's return on equity.
Enterprise Products Partners received 561 more outperform votes than Energy Transfer when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.49% of users gave Enterprise Products Partners an outperform vote while only 71.53% of users gave Energy Transfer an outperform vote.
Energy Transfer has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
38.2% of Energy Transfer shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Energy Transfer shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, Enterprise Products Partners had 2 more articles in the media than Energy Transfer. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners and 17 mentions for Energy Transfer. Energy Transfer's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Enterprise Products Partners' score of 0.65 indicating that Energy Transfer is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Energy Transfer pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Energy Transfer pays out 116.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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.
Summary
Enterprise Products Partners beats Energy Transfer on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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