PSX vs. MPC, VLO, EQNR, SU, HES, BP, COP, SLB, PXD, and EPD
Should you be buying Phillips 66 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Phillips 66 include Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Valero Energy (VLO), Equinor ASA (EQNR), Suncor Energy (SU), Hess (HES), 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 superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk and valuation.
Marathon Petroleum has a net margin of 6.44% compared to Phillips 66's net margin of 4.68%. Marathon Petroleum's return on equity of 30.58% beat Phillips 66's return on equity.
Phillips 66 presently has a consensus price target of $158.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.35%. Marathon Petroleum has a consensus price target of $193.77, suggesting a potential downside of 2.33%. Given Phillips 66's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Phillips 66 is more favorable than Marathon Petroleum.
76.9% of Phillips 66 shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.8% of Marathon Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Phillips 66 shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Marathon Petroleum shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Phillips 66 has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marathon Petroleum has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Phillips 66 had 20 more articles in the media than Marathon Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Phillips 66 and 14 mentions for Marathon Petroleum. Marathon Petroleum's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Phillips 66's score of 0.19 indicating that Marathon Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Marathon Petroleum received 221 more outperform votes than Phillips 66 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.57% of users gave Marathon Petroleum an outperform vote while only 60.87% of users gave Phillips 66 an outperform vote.
Marathon Petroleum has lower revenue, but higher 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 pays an annual dividend of $4.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Marathon Petroleum pays an annual dividend of $3.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Phillips 66 pays out 32.3% 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.
Summary
Marathon Petroleum beats Phillips 66 on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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