E vs. OXY, PXD, CVE, FANG, EOG, DVN, CNQ, EC, CTRA, and EQT
Should you be buying ENI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ENI include Occidental Petroleum (OXY), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), Cenovus Energy (CVE), Diamondback Energy (FANG), EOG Resources (EOG), Devon Energy (DVN), Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ), Ecopetrol (EC), Coterra Energy (CTRA), and EQT (EQT). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) and ENI (NYSE:E) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Occidental Petroleum received 434 more outperform votes than ENI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.34% of users gave Occidental Petroleum an outperform vote while only 54.10% of users gave ENI an outperform vote.
Occidental Petroleum pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. ENI pays an annual dividend of $1.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Occidental Petroleum pays out 22.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ENI pays out 62.5% 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. Occidental Petroleum has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and ENI has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Occidental Petroleum currently has a consensus target price of $71.94, suggesting a potential upside of 6.14%. Given ENI's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Occidental Petroleum is more favorable than ENI.
Occidental Petroleum has a net margin of 16.24% compared to Occidental Petroleum's net margin of 3.95%. ENI's return on equity of 20.63% beat Occidental Petroleum's return on equity.
In the previous week, Occidental Petroleum had 16 more articles in the media than ENI. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Occidental Petroleum and 10 mentions for ENI. ENI's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Occidental Petroleum's score of 0.20 indicating that Occidental Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Occidental Petroleum has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ENI has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ENI has higher revenue and earnings than Occidental Petroleum. ENI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Occidental Petroleum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.7% of Occidental Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.2% of ENI shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Occidental Petroleum shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of ENI shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Occidental Petroleum beats ENI on 19 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get ENI News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for E and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding E and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Related Companies and Tools
