BP vs. SHEL, WDS, TTE, WG, QED, ECHO, DCC, HBR, KOS, and ENOG
Should you be buying BP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BP include Shell (SHEL), Woodside Energy Group (WDS), TotalEnergies (TTE), John Wood Group (WG), Quadrise (QED), Echo Energy (ECHO), DCC (DCC), Harbour Energy (HBR), Kosmos Energy (KOS), and Energean (ENOG). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
BP (LON:BP) and Shell (LON:SHEL) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
BP pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Shell pays an annual dividend of GBX 110 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. BP pays out 5,348.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Shell pays out 5,045.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
BP currently has a consensus target price of GBX 628.57, indicating a potential upside of 27.94%. Shell has a consensus target price of GBX 3,123.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.52%. Given BP's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe BP is more favorable than Shell.
BP received 1634 more outperform votes than Shell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.42% of users gave BP an outperform vote while only 28.90% of users gave Shell an outperform vote.
BP has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shell has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Shell had 7 more articles in the media than BP. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Shell and 7 mentions for BP. BP's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Shell's score of -0.04 indicating that BP is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Shell has a net margin of 5.96% compared to BP's net margin of 4.62%. BP's return on equity of 11.47% beat Shell's return on equity.
45.2% of BP shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.5% of Shell shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of BP shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Shell shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Shell has higher revenue and earnings than BP. BP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Shell beats BP on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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