LNG vs. CQP, FANG, CVE, TRP, HAL, BKR, DVN, MPLX, KMI, and GEV
Should you be buying Cheniere Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cheniere Energy include Cheniere Energy Partners (CQP), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Cenovus Energy (CVE), TC Energy (TRP), Halliburton (HAL), Baker Hughes (BKR), Devon Energy (DVN), Mplx (MPLX), Kinder Morgan (KMI), and GE Vernova (GEV). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Cheniere Energy (NYSE:LNG) and Cheniere Energy Partners (NYSE:CQP) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Cheniere Energy currently has a consensus target price of $198.00, suggesting a potential upside of 23.63%. Cheniere Energy Partners has a consensus target price of $47.80, suggesting a potential downside of 3.47%. Given Cheniere Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Cheniere Energy is more favorable than Cheniere Energy Partners.
Cheniere Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Cheniere Energy Partners pays an annual dividend of $3.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Cheniere Energy pays out 8.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cheniere Energy Partners pays out 67.0% 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.
87.3% of Cheniere Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.6% of Cheniere Energy Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Cheniere Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cheniere Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Cheniere Energy Partners. Cheniere Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cheniere Energy Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cheniere Energy has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cheniere Energy Partners has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cheniere Energy had 13 more articles in the media than Cheniere Energy Partners. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Cheniere Energy and 2 mentions for Cheniere Energy Partners. Cheniere Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Cheniere Energy Partners' score of 0.99 indicating that Cheniere Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cheniere Energy received 657 more outperform votes than Cheniere Energy Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.57% of users gave Cheniere Energy an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Cheniere Energy Partners an outperform vote.
Cheniere Energy Partners has a net margin of 33.19% compared to Cheniere Energy's net margin of 28.55%. Cheniere Energy's return on equity of 48.19% beat Cheniere Energy Partners' return on equity.
Summary
Cheniere Energy beats Cheniere Energy Partners on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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