AMID vs. USAC, KGS, AROC, NGL, KNTK, ETRN, DTM, ENLC, AM, and TALO
Should you be buying American Midstream Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Midstream Partners include USA Compression Partners (USAC), Kodiak Gas Services (KGS), Archrock (AROC), NGL Energy Partners (NGL), Kinetik (KNTK), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), DT Midstream (DTM), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Antero Midstream (AM), and Talos Energy (TALO). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
American Midstream Partners (NYSE:AMID) and USA Compression Partners (NYSE:USAC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
USA Compression Partners has higher revenue and earnings than American Midstream Partners. American Midstream Partners 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.
American Midstream Partners has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, USA Compression Partners has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
American Midstream Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. USA Compression Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. American Midstream Partners pays out -25.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 15 more articles in the media than American Midstream Partners. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for USA Compression Partners and 1 mentions for American Midstream Partners. USA Compression Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat American Midstream Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that USA Compression Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
46.0% of American Midstream Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.8% of USA Compression Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of American Midstream Partners shares are owned 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.
USA Compression Partners has a consensus target price of $24.75, indicating a potential upside of 0.94%. Given USA Compression Partners' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe USA Compression Partners is more favorable than American Midstream Partners.
USA Compression Partners has a net margin of 9.21% compared to American Midstream Partners' net margin of -0.92%. American Midstream Partners' return on equity of -4.48% beat USA Compression Partners' return on equity.
USA Compression Partners received 57 more outperform votes than American Midstream Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.29% of users gave American Midstream Partners an outperform vote while only 60.12% of users gave USA Compression Partners an outperform vote.
Summary
USA Compression Partners beats American Midstream Partners on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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