KNTK vs. ENLC, DTM, ETRN, AM, AROC, TGS, USAC, KGS, TNP, and NGL
Should you be buying Kinetik stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kinetik include EnLink Midstream (ENLC), DT Midstream (DTM), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), Antero Midstream (AM), Archrock (AROC), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), USA Compression Partners (USAC), Kodiak Gas Services (KGS), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), and NGL Energy Partners (NGL).
Kinetik (NASDAQ:KNTK) and EnLink Midstream (NYSE:ENLC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.
21.1% of Kinetik shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.9% of EnLink Midstream shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of Kinetik shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of EnLink Midstream 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.
Kinetik has a beta of 2.81, meaning that its stock price is 181% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EnLink Midstream has a beta of 2.39, meaning that its stock price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kinetik has higher earnings, but lower revenue than EnLink Midstream. Kinetik is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EnLink Midstream, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kinetik had 4 more articles in the media than EnLink Midstream. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Kinetik and 1 mentions for EnLink Midstream. EnLink Midstream's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Kinetik's score of 0.49 indicating that EnLink Midstream is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
EnLink Midstream received 317 more outperform votes than Kinetik when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.08% of users gave EnLink Midstream an outperform vote while only 36.84% of users gave Kinetik an outperform vote.
Kinetik has a net margin of 29.62% compared to EnLink Midstream's net margin of 2.40%. EnLink Midstream's return on equity of 8.58% beat Kinetik's return on equity.
Kinetik pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. EnLink Midstream pays an annual dividend of $0.53 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Kinetik pays out 123.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. EnLink Midstream pays out 151.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kinetik is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Kinetik presently has a consensus price target of $40.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.10%. EnLink Midstream has a consensus price target of $14.33, suggesting a potential upside of 4.85%. Given EnLink Midstream's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe EnLink Midstream is more favorable than Kinetik.
Summary
Kinetik beats EnLink Midstream on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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