OXY vs. E, PXD, CVE, EOG, FANG, DVN, CNQ, CTRA, EQT, and MRO
Should you be buying Occidental Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Occidental Petroleum include ENI (E), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), Cenovus Energy (CVE), EOG Resources (EOG), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Devon Energy (DVN), Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ), Coterra Energy (CTRA), EQT (EQT), and Marathon Oil (MRO). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
ENI (NYSE:E) and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
Occidental Petroleum has a net margin of 15.62% compared to Occidental Petroleum's net margin of 3.95%. ENI's return on equity of 17.50% beat Occidental Petroleum's return on equity.
ENI pays an annual dividend of $1.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Occidental Petroleum pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. ENI pays out 62.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Occidental Petroleum pays out 24.0% 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. Occidental Petroleum has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
ENI has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Occidental Petroleum has a beta of 1.64, indicating that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
1.2% of ENI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of Occidental Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of ENI shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Occidental Petroleum shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ENI has higher revenue and earnings than Occidental Petroleum. ENI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Occidental Petroleum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Occidental Petroleum had 42 more articles in the media than ENI. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for Occidental Petroleum and 4 mentions for ENI. ENI's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Occidental Petroleum's score of 0.29 indicating that Occidental Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Occidental Petroleum received 433 more outperform votes than ENI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.25% of users gave Occidental Petroleum an outperform vote while only 54.17% of users gave ENI an outperform vote.
Occidental Petroleum has a consensus target price of $71.88, suggesting a potential upside of 13.99%. Given ENI's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Occidental Petroleum is more favorable than ENI.
Summary
Occidental Petroleum beats ENI on 19 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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