KGS vs. USAC, TGS, AROC, NGL, ETRN, ENLC, KNTK, DTM, AM, and XPRO
Should you be buying Kodiak Gas Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kodiak Gas Services include USA Compression Partners (USAC), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), Archrock (AROC), NGL Energy Partners (NGL), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Kinetik (KNTK), DT Midstream (DTM), Antero Midstream (AM), and Expro Group (XPRO). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
USA Compression Partners (NYSE:USAC) and Kodiak Gas Services (NYSE:KGS) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and media sentiment.
USA Compression Partners has a net margin of 8.07% compared to USA Compression Partners' net margin of 0.00%. USA Compression Partners' return on equity of 0.00% beat Kodiak Gas Services' return on equity.
USA Compression Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Kodiak Gas Services pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. USA Compression Partners pays out 1,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
USA Compression Partners received 293 more outperform votes than Kodiak Gas Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.22% of users gave Kodiak Gas Services an outperform vote while only 60.12% of users gave USA Compression Partners an outperform vote.
USA Compression Partners currently has a consensus price target of $24.75, indicating a potential downside of 1.67%. Kodiak Gas Services has a consensus price target of $26.14, indicating a potential downside of 6.57%. Given Kodiak Gas Services' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe USA Compression Partners is more favorable than Kodiak Gas Services.
USA Compression Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kodiak Gas Services.
In the previous week, Kodiak Gas Services had 1 more articles in the media than USA Compression Partners. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Kodiak Gas Services and 9 mentions for USA Compression Partners. Kodiak Gas Services' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat USA Compression Partners' score of 0.54 indicating that USA Compression Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
47.8% of USA Compression Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.0% of Kodiak Gas Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Kodiak Gas Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
USA Compression Partners beats Kodiak Gas Services on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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