MRO vs. EQT, RRC, SWN, MTDR, SM, DVN, FANG, OVV, PR, and CHK
Should you be buying Marathon Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marathon Oil include EQT (EQT), Range Resources (RRC), Southwestern Energy (SWN), Matador Resources (MTDR), SM Energy (SM), Devon Energy (DVN), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Ovintiv (OVV), Permian Resources (PR), and Chesapeake Energy (CHK). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Marathon Oil (NYSE:MRO) and EQT (NYSE:EQT) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
Marathon Oil has a beta of 2.22, suggesting that its stock price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EQT has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Marathon Oil currently has a consensus target price of $33.14, indicating a potential upside of 24.75%. EQT has a consensus target price of $44.94, indicating a potential upside of 10.39%. Given Marathon Oil's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Marathon Oil is more favorable than EQT.
77.2% of Marathon Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of EQT shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Marathon Oil shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of EQT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Marathon Oil pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. EQT pays an annual dividend of $0.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Marathon Oil pays out 18.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. EQT pays out 45.7% 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. Marathon Oil is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, EQT had 9 more articles in the media than Marathon Oil. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for EQT and 10 mentions for Marathon Oil. Marathon Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat EQT's score of 0.85 indicating that Marathon Oil is being referred to more favorably in the media.
EQT has higher revenue and earnings than Marathon Oil. Marathon Oil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EQT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Marathon Oil has a net margin of 21.83% compared to EQT's net margin of 10.96%. Marathon Oil's return on equity of 13.24% beat EQT's return on equity.
Marathon Oil received 226 more outperform votes than EQT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.23% of users gave EQT an outperform vote while only 65.96% of users gave Marathon Oil an outperform vote.
Summary
Marathon Oil beats EQT on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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