SHEL vs. BP, TTE, WG, QED, ECHO, WDS, DCC, HBR, KOS, and ENOG Should you be buying Shell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shell include BP (BP), TotalEnergies (TTE), John Wood Group (WG), Quadrise (QED), Echo Energy (ECHO), Woodside Energy Group (WDS), DCC (DCC), Harbour Energy (HBR), Kosmos Energy (KOS), and Energean (ENOG). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
BP (LON:BP ) and Shell (LON:SHEL ) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
BP has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shell has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Shell has a net margin of 5.96% compared to Shell's net margin of 4.62%. Shell's return on equity of 11.47% beat BP's return on equity.
In the previous week, Shell had 7 more articles in the media than BP. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Shell and 7 mentions for BP. Shell's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat BP's score of -0.04 indicating that BP is being referred to more favorably in the media.
45.2% of BP shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.5% of Shell shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of BP shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Shell shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Shell has higher revenue and earnings than BP. BP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BP currently has a consensus target price of GBX 628.57, suggesting a potential upside of 27.94%. Shell has a consensus target price of GBX 3,123.50, suggesting a potential upside of 11.52%. Given Shell's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe BP is more favorable than Shell.
BP pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Shell pays an annual dividend of GBX 110 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. BP pays out 5,348.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Shell pays out 5,045.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
BP received 1634 more outperform votes than Shell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.42% of users gave BP an outperform vote while only 28.90% of users gave Shell an outperform vote.
Summary Shell beats BP on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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