Energy Transfer (ET) Competitors

Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) and Energy Transfer (NYSE:ET) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.

Which has more volatility and risk, EPD or ET?

Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Energy Transfer has a beta of 1.72, indicating that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer EPD or ET?

Enterprise Products Partners received 558 more outperform votes than Energy Transfer when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.27% of users gave Enterprise Products Partners an outperform vote while only 72.11% of users gave Energy Transfer an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Enterprise Products Partners	Outperform Votes 964 80.27%	Underperform Votes 237 19.73%
Energy Transfer	Outperform Votes 406 72.11%	Underperform Votes 157 27.89%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in EPD or ET?

26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.2% of Energy Transfer shares are held by institutional investors. 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Energy Transfer shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts recommend EPD or ET?

Enterprise Products Partners currently has a consensus price target of $35.90, suggesting a potential upside of 6.53%. Energy Transfer has a consensus price target of $21.55, suggesting a potential upside of 14.24%. Given Energy Transfer's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Energy Transfer is more favorable than Enterprise Products Partners.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Enterprise Products Partners	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.75
Energy Transfer	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.91

Is EPD or ET more profitable?

Enterprise Products Partners has a net margin of 10.49% compared to Energy Transfer's net margin of 5.74%. Enterprise Products Partners' return on equity of 20.48% beat Energy Transfer's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Enterprise Products Partners	10.49%	20.48%	8.04%
Energy Transfer	5.74%	11.56%	3.90%

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, EPD or ET?

Enterprise Products Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Energy Transfer. Enterprise Products Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Energy Transfer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Enterprise Products Partners	$56.22B	1.30	$5.90B	$2.69	12.53
Energy Transfer	$82.67B	0.78	$4.39B	$1.28	14.73

Is EPD or ET a better dividend stock?

Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Energy Transfer pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Enterprise Products Partners pays out 79.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Energy Transfer pays out 101.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Enterprise Products Partners has raised its dividend for 27 consecutive years.

Does the media favor EPD or ET?

In the previous week, Energy Transfer had 5 more articles in the media than Enterprise Products Partners. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Energy Transfer and 29 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners. Enterprise Products Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Energy Transfer's score of 0.84 indicating that Enterprise Products Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Enterprise Products Partners	21 Very Positive mention(s)	4 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Energy Transfer	20 Very Positive mention(s)	8 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	2 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Enterprise Products Partners beats Energy Transfer on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.