MPC vs. PSX, VLO, SU, HES, EQNR, BP, COP, SLB, PXD, and EPD
Should you be buying Marathon Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marathon Petroleum include Phillips 66 (PSX), Valero Energy (VLO), Suncor Energy (SU), Hess (HES), Equinor ASA (EQNR), BP (BP), ConocoPhillips (COP), Schlumberger (SLB), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), and Enterprise Products Partners (EPD). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX) and Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Marathon Petroleum has higher revenue and earnings than Phillips 66. Marathon Petroleum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Phillips 66, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Phillips 66 presently has a consensus price target of $157.43, suggesting a potential upside of 12.31%. Marathon Petroleum has a consensus price target of $193.77, suggesting a potential upside of 8.27%. Given Marathon Petroleum's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Phillips 66 is more favorable than Marathon Petroleum.
76.9% of Phillips 66 shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.8% of Marathon Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Phillips 66 shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Marathon Petroleum shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Phillips 66 had 6 more articles in the media than Marathon Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Phillips 66 and 32 mentions for Marathon Petroleum. Phillips 66's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Marathon Petroleum's score of 0.15 indicating that Marathon Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Phillips 66 has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marathon Petroleum has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Marathon Petroleum has a net margin of 6.44% compared to Marathon Petroleum's net margin of 3.84%. Phillips 66's return on equity of 30.58% beat Marathon Petroleum's return on equity.
Phillips 66 pays an annual dividend of $4.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Marathon Petroleum pays an annual dividend of $3.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Phillips 66 pays out 35.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Marathon Petroleum pays out 14.0% 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. Phillips 66 has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Marathon Petroleum has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Phillips 66 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Marathon Petroleum received 222 more outperform votes than Phillips 66 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.59% of users gave Marathon Petroleum an outperform vote while only 60.82% of users gave Phillips 66 an outperform vote.
Summary
Marathon Petroleum beats Phillips 66 on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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