USA Compression Partners (USAC) Competitors

DT Midstream (NYSE:DTM) and USA Compression Partners (NYSE:USAC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Is DTM or USAC a better dividend stock?

DT Midstream pays an annual dividend of $2.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. USA Compression Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. DT Midstream pays out 71.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. USA Compression Partners pays out 368.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in DTM or USAC?

81.5% of DT Midstream shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.8% of USA Compression Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of DT Midstream shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is DTM or USAC more profitable?

DT Midstream has a net margin of 41.19% compared to USA Compression Partners' net margin of 9.36%. DT Midstream's return on equity of 9.31% beat USA Compression Partners' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DT Midstream	41.19%	9.31%	4.53%
USA Compression Partners	9.36%	-47.53%	3.20%

Do analysts prefer DTM or USAC?

DT Midstream currently has a consensus price target of $80.44, indicating a potential downside of 19.09%. USA Compression Partners has a consensus price target of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.39%. Given USA Compression Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe USA Compression Partners is more favorable than DT Midstream.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DT Midstream	2 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
USA Compression Partners	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.25

Which has more volatility and risk, DTM or USAC?

DT Midstream has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, USA Compression Partners has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer DTM or USAC?

USA Compression Partners received 272 more outperform votes than DT Midstream when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.38% of users gave USA Compression Partners an outperform vote while only 42.17% of users gave DT Midstream an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
DT Midstream	Outperform Votes 35 42.17%	Underperform Votes 48 57.83%
USA Compression Partners	Outperform Votes 307 59.38%	Underperform Votes 210 40.62%

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, DTM or USAC?

DT Midstream has higher earnings, but lower revenue than USA Compression Partners. DT Midstream is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than USA Compression Partners, 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
DT Midstream	$922M	10.48	$384M	$4.11	24.19
USA Compression Partners	$929.61M	2.89	$68.27M	$0.57	40.23

Does the media refer more to DTM or USAC?

In the previous week, DT Midstream had 7 more articles in the media than USA Compression Partners. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for DT Midstream and 0 mentions for USA Compression Partners. DT Midstream's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat USA Compression Partners' score of -0.33 indicating that DT Midstream is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
DT Midstream	Positive
USA Compression Partners	Neutral

Summary

DT Midstream beats USA Compression Partners on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.