TRP vs. EPD, ET, WMB, NGG, KMI, TRGP, WES, AM, DTM, and KNTK
Should you be buying TC Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TC Energy include Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Energy Transfer (ET), Williams Companies (WMB), National Grid (NGG), Kinder Morgan (KMI), 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.
TC Energy (NYSE:TRP) and Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
TC Energy has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Enterprise Products Partners had 13 more articles in the media than TC Energy. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners and 8 mentions for TC Energy. TC Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Enterprise Products Partners' score of 0.65 indicating that TC Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Enterprise Products Partners has higher revenue and earnings than TC Energy. Enterprise Products Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TC Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TC Energy has a net margin of 17.23% compared to Enterprise Products Partners' net margin of 10.76%. Enterprise Products Partners' return on equity of 19.73% beat TC Energy's return on equity.
TC Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.83 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. TC Energy pays out 145.9% 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.
83.1% of TC Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
TC Energy currently has a consensus target price of $48.83, indicating a potential upside of 26.64%. Enterprise Products Partners has a consensus target price of $32.69, indicating a potential upside of 14.71%. Given TC Energy's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe TC Energy is more favorable than Enterprise Products Partners.
Enterprise Products Partners received 468 more outperform votes than TC Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.49% of users gave Enterprise Products Partners an outperform vote while only 63.56% of users gave TC Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Enterprise Products Partners beats TC Energy on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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