MPLX vs. ENB, CP, CNI, CSX, RYAAY, VIK, BIP, PAA, AAL, and TFII
Should you be buying Mplx stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mplx include Enbridge (ENB), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), Canadian National Railway (CNI), CSX (CSX), Ryanair (RYAAY), Viking (VIK), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), American Airlines Group (AAL), and TFI International (TFII). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Mplx vs.
Enbridge (NYSE:ENB) and Mplx (NYSE:MPLX) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Enbridge received 168 more outperform votes than Mplx when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.08% of users gave Mplx an outperform vote while only 68.00% of users gave Enbridge an outperform vote.
Enbridge has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mplx has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mplx has a net margin of 36.77% compared to Enbridge's net margin of 13.54%. Mplx's return on equity of 32.70% beat Enbridge's return on equity.
Enbridge pays an annual dividend of $2.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Mplx pays an annual dividend of $3.83 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Enbridge pays out 121.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mplx pays out 90.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mplx has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Mplx is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Enbridge has higher revenue and earnings than Mplx. Mplx is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enbridge, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Enbridge currently has a consensus target price of $63.00, indicating a potential upside of 41.47%. Mplx has a consensus target price of $49.89, indicating a potential downside of 2.51%. Given Enbridge's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Enbridge is more favorable than Mplx.
54.6% of Enbridge shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.3% of Mplx shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Enbridge shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Enbridge had 18 more articles in the media than Mplx. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Enbridge and 17 mentions for Mplx. Mplx's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Enbridge's score of 0.76 indicating that Mplx is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Mplx beats Enbridge on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MPLX) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
