TPL vs. APA, CHRD, FANG, MGY, MTDR, MUR, NOG, OVV, SM, and TRGP
Should you be buying Texas Pacific Land stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Texas Pacific Land include APA (APA), Chord Energy (CHRD), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY), Matador Resources (MTDR), Murphy Oil (MUR), Northern Oil and Gas (NOG), Ovintiv (OVV), SM Energy (SM), and Targa Resources (TRGP). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Texas Pacific Land vs. Its Competitors
APA (NASDAQ:APA) and Texas Pacific Land (NYSE:TPL) are both energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
In the previous week, APA had 13 more articles in the media than Texas Pacific Land. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for APA and 10 mentions for Texas Pacific Land. Texas Pacific Land's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat APA's score of 0.82 indicating that Texas Pacific Land is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
83.0% of APA shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of Texas Pacific Land shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of APA shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Texas Pacific Land shares are held by company 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.
Texas Pacific Land has a net margin of 62.16% compared to APA's net margin of 10.53%. Texas Pacific Land's return on equity of 39.47% beat APA's return on equity.
APA pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Texas Pacific Land pays an annual dividend of $6.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. APA pays out 33.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Texas Pacific Land pays out 31.9% 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. Texas Pacific Land has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
APA has higher revenue and earnings than Texas Pacific Land. APA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Texas Pacific Land, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
APA presently has a consensus target price of $23.83, suggesting a potential upside of 4.35%. Given APA's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe APA is more favorable than Texas Pacific Land.
APA has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Texas Pacific Land has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Texas Pacific Land beats APA on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:TPL) was last updated on 9/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
