Occidental Petroleum (OXY) Competitors

Hess (NYSE:HES) and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Is HES or OXY a better dividend stock?

Hess pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Occidental Petroleum pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Hess pays out 22.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Occidental Petroleum pays out 39.3% 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.

Which has better valuation and earnings, HES or OXY?

Occidental Petroleum has higher revenue and earnings than Hess. Hess is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Occidental Petroleum, 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
Hess	$12.90B	3.44	$2.77B	$9.00	15.98
Occidental Petroleum	$26.73B	1.63	$4.70B	$2.44	19.00

Which has more risk and volatility, HES or OXY?

Hess has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Occidental Petroleum has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts prefer HES or OXY?

Hess presently has a consensus target price of $170.60, indicating a potential upside of 18.61%. Occidental Petroleum has a consensus target price of $61.55, indicating a potential upside of 32.76%. Given Occidental Petroleum's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Occidental Petroleum is more favorable than Hess.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hess	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.55
Occidental Petroleum	2 Sell rating(s)	12 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.29

Is HES or OXY more profitable?

Hess has a net margin of 21.27% compared to Occidental Petroleum's net margin of 11.37%. Hess' return on equity of 26.32% beat Occidental Petroleum's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hess	21.27%	26.32%	11.55%
Occidental Petroleum	11.37%	16.33%	5.05%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in HES or OXY?

88.5% of Hess shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of Occidental Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.8% of Hess shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Occidental Petroleum shares are owned by company 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.

Does the media prefer HES or OXY?

In the previous week, Occidental Petroleum had 17 more articles in the media than Hess. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Occidental Petroleum and 23 mentions for Hess. Occidental Petroleum's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Hess' score of 0.73 indicating that Occidental Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Hess	11 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	7 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Occidental Petroleum	22 Very Positive mention(s)	7 Positive mention(s)	7 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer HES or OXY?

Occidental Petroleum received 70 more outperform votes than Hess when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.53% of users gave Occidental Petroleum an outperform vote while only 59.48% of users gave Hess an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Hess	Outperform Votes 781 59.48%	Underperform Votes 532 40.52%
Occidental Petroleum	Outperform Votes 851 60.53%	Underperform Votes 555 39.47%

Summary

Occidental Petroleum beats Hess on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.