KMI vs. WMB, LNG, TRGP, FRO, STNG, GOGL, GLNG, TNK, SFL, and TK
Should you be buying Kinder Morgan stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kinder Morgan include Williams Companies (WMB), 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 investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking and risk.
Williams Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Kinder Morgan pays an annual dividend of $1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. 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. Williams Companies has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years and Kinder Morgan has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years.
86.4% of Williams Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of Kinder Morgan shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Williams Companies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Kinder Morgan shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Williams Companies presently has a consensus price target of $39.73, suggesting a potential downside of 0.93%. Kinder Morgan has a consensus price target of $20.20, suggesting a potential upside of 6.82%. Given Williams Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kinder Morgan is more favorable than Williams Companies.
Williams Companies has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinder Morgan has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Williams Companies has a net margin of 27.29% compared to Williams Companies' net margin of 16.08%. Kinder Morgan's return on equity of 16.27% beat Williams Companies' return on equity.
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 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.
In the previous week, Williams Companies had 5 more articles in the media than Kinder Morgan. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Williams Companies and 9 mentions for Kinder Morgan. Williams Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Kinder Morgan's score of 0.79 indicating that Kinder Morgan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Williams Companies beats Kinder Morgan on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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