MRO vs. EQT, RRC, SWN, MTDR, SM, DVN, FANG, OVV, PR, and CHK
Should you be buying Marathon Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marathon Oil include EQT (EQT), Range Resources (RRC), Southwestern Energy (SWN), Matador Resources (MTDR), SM Energy (SM), Devon Energy (DVN), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Ovintiv (OVV), Permian Resources (PR), and Chesapeake Energy (CHK).
EQT (NYSE:EQT) and Marathon Oil (NYSE:MRO) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
90.8% of EQT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.2% of Marathon Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of EQT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Marathon Oil shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
EQT currently has a consensus price target of $44.56, indicating a potential upside of 15.36%. Marathon Oil has a consensus price target of $32.66, indicating a potential upside of 25.13%. Given EQT's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Marathon Oil is more favorable than EQT.
EQT has higher revenue and earnings than Marathon Oil. Marathon Oil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EQT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Marathon Oil received 226 more outperform votes than EQT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.29% of users gave EQT an outperform vote while only 65.96% of users gave Marathon Oil an outperform vote.
In the previous week, EQT had 17 more articles in the media than Marathon Oil. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for EQT and 9 mentions for Marathon Oil. EQT's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Marathon Oil's score of 0.45 indicating that Marathon Oil is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Marathon Oil has a net margin of 23.20% compared to Marathon Oil's net margin of 10.96%. EQT's return on equity of 14.09% beat Marathon Oil's return on equity.
EQT has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marathon Oil has a beta of 2.22, suggesting that its share price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.
EQT pays an annual dividend of $0.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Marathon Oil pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. EQT pays out 45.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Marathon Oil pays out 17.2% 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. EQT has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Marathon Oil has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Marathon Oil is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Marathon Oil beats EQT on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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