EQNR vs. BP, MPC, PSX, VLO, SU, HES, COP, CVX, CNQ, and ENB
Should you be buying Equinor ASA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equinor ASA include BP (BP), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Phillips 66 (PSX), Valero Energy (VLO), Suncor Energy (SU), Hess (HES), ConocoPhillips (COP), Chevron (CVX), Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ), and Enbridge (ENB). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
BP (NYSE:BP) and Equinor ASA (NYSE:EQNR) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and institutional ownership.
BP has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equinor ASA has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BP presently has a consensus price target of $43.72, suggesting a potential upside of 16.45%. Equinor ASA has a consensus price target of $28.25, suggesting a potential upside of 0.64%. Given Equinor ASA's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe BP is more favorable than Equinor ASA.
Equinor ASA has a net margin of 9.30% compared to Equinor ASA's net margin of 7.15%. BP's return on equity of 19.67% beat Equinor ASA's return on equity.
BP received 984 more outperform votes than Equinor ASA when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.93% of users gave BP an outperform vote while only 55.31% of users gave Equinor ASA an outperform vote.
BP pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Equinor ASA pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. BP pays out 33.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Equinor ASA pays out 30.3% 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. BP has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Equinor ASA has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
BP has higher revenue and earnings than Equinor ASA. BP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equinor ASA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
11.0% of BP shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.5% of Equinor ASA shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of BP shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Equinor ASA shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, BP had 29 more articles in the media than Equinor ASA. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for BP and 7 mentions for Equinor ASA. BP's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Equinor ASA's score of 0.11 indicating that Equinor ASA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
BP beats Equinor ASA on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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