TRP vs. KMI, WMB, TRGP, ET, EPD, WES, CVE, MPLX, LNG, and FANG
Should you be buying TC Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TC Energy include Kinder Morgan (KMI), Williams Companies (WMB), Targa Resources (TRGP), Energy Transfer (ET), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Western Midstream Partners (WES), Cenovus Energy (CVE), Mplx (MPLX), Cheniere Energy (LNG), and Diamondback Energy (FANG). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
TC Energy (NYSE:TRP) and Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMI) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
TC Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.83 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Kinder Morgan pays an annual dividend of $1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. 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. 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.
TC Energy presently has a consensus price target of $48.83, indicating a potential upside of 25.41%. Kinder Morgan has a consensus price target of $20.20, indicating a potential upside of 2.75%. Given TC Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe TC Energy is more favorable than Kinder Morgan.
Kinder Morgan received 332 more outperform votes than TC Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.97% of users gave Kinder Morgan an outperform vote while only 63.56% of users gave TC Energy an outperform vote.
Kinder Morgan has higher revenue and earnings than TC Energy. Kinder Morgan is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TC Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, TC Energy had 5 more articles in the media than Kinder Morgan. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for TC Energy and 10 mentions for Kinder Morgan. Kinder Morgan's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat TC Energy's score of 0.87 indicating that Kinder Morgan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
83.1% of TC Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of Kinder Morgan shares are held by institutional investors. 12.6% of Kinder Morgan shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
TC Energy has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinder Morgan has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TC Energy has a net margin of 17.23% compared to Kinder Morgan's net margin of 16.08%. TC Energy's return on equity of 17.94% beat Kinder Morgan's return on equity.
Summary
TC Energy beats Kinder Morgan on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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