SM vs. EQT, MRO, RRC, SWN, MTDR, CRK, KOS, SBOW, EGY, and BRY
Should you be buying SM Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SM Energy include EQT (EQT), Marathon Oil (MRO), Range Resources (RRC), Southwestern Energy (SWN), Matador Resources (MTDR), Comstock Resources (CRK), Kosmos Energy (KOS), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), VAALCO Energy (EGY), and Berry (BRY). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas exploration & production" industry.
SM Energy (NYSE:SM) and EQT (NYSE:EQT) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
94.6% of SM Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of EQT shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of SM Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of EQT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SM Energy currently has a consensus target price of $54.57, indicating a potential upside of 11.74%. EQT has a consensus target price of $44.94, indicating a potential upside of 10.42%. Given SM Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SM Energy is more favorable than EQT.
EQT has higher revenue and earnings than SM Energy. SM Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EQT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SM Energy had 6 more articles in the media than EQT. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for SM Energy and 10 mentions for EQT. SM Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat EQT's score of 0.54 indicating that SM Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SM Energy received 12 more outperform votes than EQT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.17% of users gave EQT an outperform vote while only 65.72% of users gave SM Energy an outperform vote.
SM Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. EQT pays an annual dividend of $0.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. SM Energy pays out 11.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. EQT pays out 45.7% 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.
SM Energy has a net margin of 31.80% compared to EQT's net margin of 10.96%. SM Energy's return on equity of 20.10% beat EQT's return on equity.
SM Energy has a beta of 4.21, suggesting that its share price is 321% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EQT has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
SM Energy beats EQT on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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