AROC vs. TGS, USAC, KGS, ETRN, ENLC, KNTK, DTM, AM, NEP, and CRK
Should you be buying Archrock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Archrock include Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), USA Compression Partners (USAC), Kodiak Gas Services (KGS), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Kinetik (KNTK), DT Midstream (DTM), Antero Midstream (AM), NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), and Comstock Resources (CRK). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Transportadora de Gas del Sur (NYSE:TGS) and Archrock (NYSE:AROC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
Transportadora de Gas del Sur has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Archrock has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Archrock received 73 more outperform votes than Transportadora de Gas del Sur when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.13% of users gave Archrock an outperform vote while only 61.93% of users gave Transportadora de Gas del Sur an outperform vote.
3.3% of Transportadora de Gas del Sur shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Archrock shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of Archrock shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Archrock has a net margin of 12.54% compared to Archrock's net margin of 8.10%. Transportadora de Gas del Sur's return on equity of 15.30% beat Archrock's return on equity.
Archrock has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Transportadora de Gas del Sur. Archrock is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Transportadora de Gas del Sur, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Archrock has a consensus target price of $19.67, indicating a potential downside of 1.86%. Given Transportadora de Gas del Sur's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Archrock is more favorable than Transportadora de Gas del Sur.
In the previous week, Transportadora de Gas del Sur and Transportadora de Gas del Sur both had 4 articles in the media. Transportadora de Gas del Sur's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Archrock's score of 0.71 indicating that Archrock is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Archrock beats Transportadora de Gas del Sur on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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