TPL vs. WES, OVV, PR, MRO, PAA, ENPH, CHK, FTI, APA, and DINO
Should you be buying Texas Pacific Land stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Texas Pacific Land include Western Midstream Partners (WES), Ovintiv (OVV), Permian Resources (PR), Marathon Oil (MRO), Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), Enphase Energy (ENPH), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), TechnipFMC (FTI), APA (APA), and HF Sinclair (DINO). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Western Midstream Partners (NYSE:WES) and Texas Pacific Land (NYSE:TPL) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Western Midstream Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Texas Pacific Land. Western Midstream Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Texas Pacific Land, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Texas Pacific Land has a net margin of 65.74% compared to Texas Pacific Land's net margin of 42.50%. Texas Pacific Land's return on equity of 44.76% beat Western Midstream Partners' return on equity.
42.9% of Western Midstream Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of Texas Pacific Land shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Western Midstream Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Texas Pacific Land shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Western Midstream Partners received 312 more outperform votes than Texas Pacific Land when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.63% of users gave Texas Pacific Land an outperform vote while only 69.01% of users gave Western Midstream Partners an outperform vote.
Western Midstream Partners has a beta of 2.82, indicating that its stock price is 182% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Texas Pacific Land has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Western Midstream Partners had 3 more articles in the media than Texas Pacific Land. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Western Midstream Partners and 12 mentions for Texas Pacific Land. Western Midstream Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Texas Pacific Land's score of 0.20 indicating that Texas Pacific Land is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Western Midstream Partners pays an annual dividend of $3.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. Texas Pacific Land pays an annual dividend of $4.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Western Midstream Partners pays out 98.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Texas Pacific Land pays out 24.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Western Midstream Partners has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Texas Pacific Land has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Western Midstream Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Western Midstream Partners presently has a consensus price target of $31.09, indicating a potential downside of 18.52%. Texas Pacific Land has a consensus price target of $694.17, indicating a potential upside of 15.82%. Given Western Midstream Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Texas Pacific Land is more favorable than Western Midstream Partners.
Summary
Texas Pacific Land beats Western Midstream Partners on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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