USAC vs. KGS, TGS, AROC, NGL, ETRN, ENLC, KNTK, DTM, AM, and AY
Should you be buying USA Compression Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of USA Compression Partners include Kodiak Gas Services (KGS), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), Archrock (AROC), NGL Energy Partners (NGL), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Kinetik (KNTK), DT Midstream (DTM), Antero Midstream (AM), and Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure (AY). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Kodiak Gas Services (NYSE:KGS) and USA Compression Partners (NYSE:USAC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and profitability.
USA Compression Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kodiak Gas Services. Kodiak Gas Services 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.
USA Compression Partners has a net margin of 9.21% compared to USA Compression Partners' net margin of 7.15%. USA Compression Partners' return on equity of 7.33% beat Kodiak Gas Services' return on equity.
USA Compression Partners received 293 more outperform votes than Kodiak Gas Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.68% of users gave Kodiak Gas Services an outperform vote while only 60.20% of users gave USA Compression Partners an outperform vote.
Kodiak Gas Services pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. USA Compression Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Kodiak Gas Services pays out 172.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. USA Compression Partners pays out 512.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, USA Compression Partners had 11 more articles in the media than Kodiak Gas Services. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for USA Compression Partners and 4 mentions for Kodiak Gas Services. USA Compression Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Kodiak Gas Services' score of 0.62 indicating that Kodiak Gas Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kodiak Gas Services presently has a consensus price target of $27.43, indicating a potential downside of 3.73%. USA Compression Partners has a consensus price target of $24.75, indicating a potential upside of 1.98%. Given Kodiak Gas Services' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe USA Compression Partners is more favorable than Kodiak Gas Services.
25.0% of Kodiak Gas Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.8% of USA Compression Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Kodiak Gas Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
USA Compression Partners beats Kodiak Gas Services on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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