USAC vs. KGS, TGS, AROC, NGL, ETRN, ENLC, KNTK, DTM, AM, and AY Should you be buying USA Compression Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of USA Compression Partners include Kodiak Gas Services (KGS), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), Archrock (AROC), NGL Energy Partners (NGL), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Kinetik (KNTK), DT Midstream (DTM), Antero Midstream (AM), and Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure (AY). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
USA Compression Partners (NYSE:USAC ) and Kodiak Gas Services (NYSE:KGS ) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
USA Compression Partners currently has a consensus price target of $24.75, indicating a potential upside of 1.98%. Kodiak Gas Services has a consensus price target of $27.43, indicating a potential downside of 3.73%. Given USA Compression Partners' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe USA Compression Partners is more favorable than Kodiak Gas Services.
USA Compression Partners has a net margin of 9.21% compared to Kodiak Gas Services' net margin of 7.15%. Kodiak Gas Services' return on equity of 7.33% beat USA Compression Partners' return on equity.
In the previous week, USA Compression Partners had 12 more articles in the media than Kodiak Gas Services. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for USA Compression Partners and 3 mentions for Kodiak Gas Services. Kodiak Gas Services' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat USA Compression Partners' score of 0.62 indicating that Kodiak Gas Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
USA Compression Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kodiak Gas Services. Kodiak Gas Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than USA Compression Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
47.8% of USA Compression Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.0% of Kodiak Gas Services shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Kodiak Gas Services shares are held 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.
USA Compression Partners received 293 more outperform votes than Kodiak Gas Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.68% of users gave Kodiak Gas Services an outperform vote while only 60.20% of users gave USA Compression Partners an outperform vote.
USA Compression Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Kodiak Gas Services pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. USA Compression Partners pays out 512.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kodiak Gas Services pays out 172.7% 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 USA Compression Partners beats Kodiak Gas Services on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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