VVV vs. YPF, AR, PR, OVV, VNOM, SUN, HESM, APA, CHRD, and MGY
Should you be buying Valvoline stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Valvoline include YPF Sociedad Anónima (YPF), Antero Resources (AR), Permian Resources (PR), Ovintiv (OVV), Viper Energy (VNOM), Sunoco (SUN), Hess Midstream (HESM), APA (APA), Chord Energy (CHRD), and Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY). These companies are all part of the "petroleum and natural gas" industry.
Valvoline vs.
Valvoline (NYSE:VVV) and YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
96.1% of Valvoline shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.1% of YPF Sociedad Anónima shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Valvoline shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Valvoline presently has a consensus target price of $43.67, indicating a potential upside of 26.79%. YPF Sociedad Anónima has a consensus target price of $40.73, indicating a potential upside of 23.05%. Given Valvoline's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Valvoline is more favorable than YPF Sociedad Anónima.
Valvoline pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. YPF Sociedad Anónima pays an annual dividend of $0.1380 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Valvoline pays out 5.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. YPF Sociedad Anónima pays out 2.3% 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. YPF Sociedad Anónima is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Valvoline has a net margin of 16.34% compared to YPF Sociedad Anónima's net margin of 4.15%. Valvoline's return on equity of 143.64% beat YPF Sociedad Anónima's return on equity.
Valvoline has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, YPF Sociedad Anónima has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, YPF Sociedad Anónima had 2 more articles in the media than Valvoline. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for YPF Sociedad Anónima and 8 mentions for Valvoline. Valvoline's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat YPF Sociedad Anónima's score of 0.92 indicating that Valvoline is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Valvoline has higher earnings, but lower revenue than YPF Sociedad Anónima. YPF Sociedad Anónima is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Valvoline, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
YPF Sociedad Anónima received 155 more outperform votes than Valvoline when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.53% of users gave YPF Sociedad Anónima an outperform vote while only 58.18% of users gave Valvoline an outperform vote.
Summary
Valvoline beats YPF Sociedad Anónima on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:VVV) was last updated on 4/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
