MUR vs. XOM, CVX, OXY, HES, CTRA, EQT, WDS, MRO, OVV, and PR
Should you be buying Murphy Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Murphy Oil include Exxon Mobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), Occidental Petroleum (OXY), Hess (HES), Coterra Energy (CTRA), EQT (EQT), Woodside Energy Group (WDS), Marathon Oil (MRO), Ovintiv (OVV), and Permian Resources (PR). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Murphy Oil (NYSE:MUR) and Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Murphy Oil currently has a consensus target price of $51.00, suggesting a potential upside of 28.56%. Exxon Mobil has a consensus target price of $133.71, suggesting a potential upside of 18.59%. Given Murphy Oil's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Murphy Oil is more favorable than Exxon Mobil.
Murphy Oil has a beta of 2.21, suggesting that its stock price is 121% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Exxon Mobil has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Exxon Mobil has higher revenue and earnings than Murphy Oil. Murphy Oil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Exxon Mobil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Exxon Mobil received 919 more outperform votes than Murphy Oil when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.77% of users gave Exxon Mobil an outperform vote while only 48.49% of users gave Murphy Oil an outperform vote.
Murphy Oil has a net margin of 16.40% compared to Exxon Mobil's net margin of 9.62%. Exxon Mobil's return on equity of 16.75% beat Murphy Oil's return on equity.
Murphy Oil pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Exxon Mobil pays an annual dividend of $3.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Murphy Oil pays out 33.4% 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.
78.3% of Murphy Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.8% of Exxon Mobil shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.0% of Murphy Oil shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Exxon Mobil shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Exxon Mobil had 21 more articles in the media than Murphy Oil. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Exxon Mobil and 4 mentions for Murphy Oil. Exxon Mobil's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Murphy Oil's score of 0.45 indicating that Exxon Mobil is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Exxon Mobil beats Murphy Oil on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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