KMI vs. WMB, TRGP, TRP, ET, EPD, WES, MPLX, GEV, CVE, and OKE
Should you be buying Kinder Morgan stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kinder Morgan include Williams Companies (WMB), Targa Resources (TRGP), TC Energy (TRP), Energy Transfer (ET), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Western Midstream Partners (WES), Mplx (MPLX), GE Vernova (GEV), Cenovus Energy (CVE), and ONEOK (OKE). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) and Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMI) 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 analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and valuation.
Williams Companies has a net margin of 27.29% compared to Williams Companies' net margin of 16.08%. Kinder Morgan's return on equity of 16.27% beat Williams Companies' return on equity.
In the previous week, Kinder Morgan had 4 more articles in the media than Williams Companies. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Kinder Morgan and 14 mentions for Williams Companies. Williams Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Kinder Morgan's score of 0.87 indicating that Kinder Morgan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Williams Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Kinder Morgan pays an annual dividend of $1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Williams Companies pays out 79.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kinder Morgan pays out 104.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Williams Companies has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years and Kinder Morgan has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years.
Williams Companies presently has a consensus price target of $39.73, suggesting a potential downside of 3.74%. Kinder Morgan has a consensus price target of $20.20, suggesting a potential upside of 2.54%. Given Williams Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kinder Morgan is more favorable than Williams Companies.
Kinder Morgan received 140 more outperform votes than Williams Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.56% of users gave Williams Companies an outperform vote while only 66.97% of users gave Kinder Morgan an outperform vote.
Williams Companies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kinder Morgan. Williams Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kinder Morgan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
86.4% of Williams Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of Kinder Morgan shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Williams Companies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.6% of Kinder Morgan shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Williams Companies has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinder Morgan has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Williams Companies beats Kinder Morgan on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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