AROC vs. TGS, USAC, KGS, ETRN, ENLC, KNTK, DTM, AM, PFHC, and CRK
Should you be buying Archrock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Archrock include Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), USA Compression Partners (USAC), Kodiak Gas Services (KGS), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Kinetik (KNTK), DT Midstream (DTM), Antero Midstream (AM), ProFrac (PFHC), and Comstock Resources (CRK). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Transportadora de Gas del Sur (NYSE:TGS) and Archrock (NYSE:AROC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Archrock has a net margin of 12.54% compared to Archrock's net margin of 4.16%. Transportadora de Gas del Sur's return on equity of 15.30% beat Archrock's return on equity.
3.3% of Transportadora de Gas del Sur shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Archrock shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of Archrock shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Transportadora de Gas del Sur has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Archrock has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Archrock received 72 more outperform votes than Transportadora de Gas del Sur when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.06% of users gave Archrock an outperform vote while only 61.93% of users gave Transportadora de Gas del Sur an outperform vote.
Archrock has a consensus price target of $19.67, indicating a potential downside of 2.54%. Given Transportadora de Gas del Sur's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Archrock is more favorable than Transportadora de Gas del Sur.
Archrock has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Transportadora de Gas del Sur. Archrock is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Transportadora de Gas del Sur, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Archrock had 3 more articles in the media than Transportadora de Gas del Sur. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Archrock and 6 mentions for Transportadora de Gas del Sur. Transportadora de Gas del Sur's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Archrock's score of 0.52 indicating that Archrock is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Archrock beats Transportadora de Gas del Sur on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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