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Should you be buying Cheniere Energy Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cheniere Energy Partners include Constellation Energy (CEG), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Energy Transfer (ET), Vistra (VST), National Grid (NGG), American Electric Power (AEP), TC Energy (TRP), Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), and Fortis (FTS). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
Cheniere Energy Partners vs.
Cheniere Energy Partners (NYSE:CQP) and Constellation Energy (NASDAQ:CEG) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Cheniere Energy Partners presently has a consensus target price of $51.67, suggesting a potential downside of 16.78%. Constellation Energy has a consensus target price of $289.86, suggesting a potential downside of 8.38%. Given Constellation Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Constellation Energy is more favorable than Cheniere Energy Partners.
Constellation Energy received 167 more outperform votes than Cheniere Energy Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.50% of users gave Constellation Energy an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Cheniere Energy Partners an outperform vote.
Cheniere Energy Partners has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Constellation Energy has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Constellation Energy had 5 more articles in the media than Cheniere Energy Partners. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Constellation Energy and 8 mentions for Cheniere Energy Partners. Cheniere Energy Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Constellation Energy's score of 0.53 indicating that Cheniere Energy Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cheniere Energy Partners pays an annual dividend of $3.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Constellation Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.41 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Cheniere Energy Partners pays out 67.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Constellation Energy pays out 15.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Cheniere Energy Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Constellation Energy. Cheniere Energy Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Constellation Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
46.6% of Cheniere Energy Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.2% of Constellation Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Constellation Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cheniere Energy Partners has a net margin of 31.28% compared to Constellation Energy's net margin of 11.93%. Constellation Energy's return on equity of 16.26% beat Cheniere Energy Partners' return on equity.
Summary
Constellation Energy beats Cheniere Energy Partners on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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