WMB vs. KMI, LNG, TRGP, FRO, STNG, GOGL, GLNG, TNK, SFL, and TK
Should you be buying Williams Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Williams Companies include Kinder Morgan (KMI), Cheniere Energy (LNG), Targa Resources (TRGP), Frontline (FRO), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), Golar LNG (GLNG), Teekay Tankers (TNK), SFL (SFL), and Teekay (TK). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas storage & transportation" industry.
Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) and Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMI) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
Williams Companies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kinder Morgan. Williams Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kinder Morgan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kinder Morgan received 140 more outperform votes than Williams Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.56% of users gave Williams Companies an outperform vote while only 66.97% of users gave Kinder Morgan an outperform vote.
Williams Companies has a net margin of 27.29% compared to Kinder Morgan's net margin of 16.08%. Williams Companies' return on equity of 16.27% beat Kinder Morgan's return on equity.
Williams Companies presently has a consensus price target of $39.73, suggesting a potential downside of 4.29%. Kinder Morgan has a consensus price target of $20.20, suggesting a potential upside of 3.64%. Given Kinder Morgan's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kinder Morgan is more favorable than Williams Companies.
Williams Companies has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinder Morgan has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Williams Companies had 1 more articles in the media than Kinder Morgan. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Williams Companies and 7 mentions for Kinder Morgan. Kinder Morgan's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Williams Companies' score of 1.16 indicating that Kinder Morgan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
86.4% of Williams Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of Kinder Morgan shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Williams Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.6% of Kinder Morgan shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Williams Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Kinder Morgan pays an annual dividend of $1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Williams Companies pays out 79.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kinder Morgan pays out 104.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Williams Companies beats Kinder Morgan on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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