NS vs. DINO, PAGP, DKL, GEL, ENB, MPLX, PAA, APA, AR, and YPF
Should you be buying NuStar Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NuStar Energy include HF Sinclair (DINO), Plains GP (PAGP), Delek Logistics Partners (DKL), Genesis Energy (GEL), Enbridge (ENB), Mplx (MPLX), Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), APA (APA), Antero Resources (AR), and YPF Sociedad Anónima (YPF). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
HF Sinclair (NYSE:DINO) and NuStar Energy (NYSE:NS) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk and earnings.
88.3% of HF Sinclair shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.1% of NuStar Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of HF Sinclair shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of NuStar Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
HF Sinclair has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NuStar Energy has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HF Sinclair has higher revenue and earnings than NuStar Energy. HF Sinclair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NuStar Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, HF Sinclair had 5 more articles in the media than NuStar Energy. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for HF Sinclair and 2 mentions for NuStar Energy. NuStar Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat HF Sinclair's score of 0.09 indicating that HF Sinclair is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NuStar Energy received 370 more outperform votes than HF Sinclair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.87% of users gave NuStar Energy an outperform vote while only 29.87% of users gave HF Sinclair an outperform vote.
NuStar Energy has a net margin of 12.90% compared to NuStar Energy's net margin of 4.94%. HF Sinclair's return on equity of 88.49% beat NuStar Energy's return on equity.
HF Sinclair pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. NuStar Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. HF Sinclair pays out 24.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NuStar Energy pays out 225.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. HF Sinclair has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
HF Sinclair presently has a consensus target price of $64.92, suggesting a potential upside of 22.39%. NuStar Energy has a consensus target price of $19.80, suggesting a potential downside of 9.84%. Given NuStar Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe HF Sinclair is more favorable than NuStar Energy.
Summary
HF Sinclair beats NuStar Energy on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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