USAC vs. TGS, KGS, AROC, NGL, ETRN, KNTK, DTM, ENLC, AM, and TALO
Should you be buying USA Compression Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of USA Compression Partners include Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), Kodiak Gas Services (KGS), Archrock (AROC), NGL Energy Partners (NGL), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), Kinetik (KNTK), DT Midstream (DTM), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Antero Midstream (AM), and Talos Energy (TALO). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
USA Compression Partners (NYSE:USAC) and Transportadora de Gas del Sur (NYSE:TGS) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and dividends.
USA Compression Partners received 5 more outperform votes than Transportadora de Gas del Sur when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.86% of users gave Transportadora de Gas del Sur an outperform vote while only 60.04% of users gave USA Compression Partners an outperform vote.
USA Compression Partners has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Transportadora de Gas del Sur has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, USA Compression Partners had 1 more articles in the media than Transportadora de Gas del Sur. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for USA Compression Partners and 1 mentions for Transportadora de Gas del Sur. USA Compression Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Transportadora de Gas del Sur's score of 0.15 indicating that USA Compression Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Transportadora de Gas del Sur has higher revenue and earnings than USA Compression Partners. Transportadora de Gas del Sur is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than USA Compression Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
USA Compression Partners currently has a consensus target price of $24.75, indicating a potential upside of 1.64%. Given USA Compression Partners' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe USA Compression Partners is more favorable than Transportadora de Gas del Sur.
USA Compression Partners has a net margin of 8.07% compared to Transportadora de Gas del Sur's net margin of 4.16%. Transportadora de Gas del Sur's return on equity of 1.88% beat USA Compression Partners' return on equity.
47.8% of USA Compression Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.3% of Transportadora de Gas del Sur shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
USA Compression Partners beats Transportadora de Gas del Sur on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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