KNTK vs. RTLR, TNP, WES, AM, DTM, ETRN, ENLC, AROC, TGS, and USAC
Should you be buying Kinetik stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kinetik include Rattler Midstream (RTLR), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Western Midstream Partners (WES), Antero Midstream (AM), DT Midstream (DTM), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Archrock (AROC), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), and USA Compression Partners (USAC).
Rattler Midstream (NASDAQ:RTLR) and Kinetik (NASDAQ:KNTK) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Rattler Midstream pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Kinetik pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Rattler Midstream pays out 129.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kinetik pays out 123.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kinetik has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Kinetik had 2 more articles in the media than Rattler Midstream. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Kinetik and 0 mentions for Rattler Midstream. Rattler Midstream's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Kinetik's score of 0.00 indicating that Kinetik is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kinetik has a consensus price target of $40.50, suggesting a potential downside of 1.20%. Given Rattler Midstream's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kinetik is more favorable than Rattler Midstream.
Kinetik has higher revenue and earnings than Rattler Midstream. Rattler Midstream is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kinetik, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
19.8% of Rattler Midstream shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.1% of Kinetik shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Rattler Midstream shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Kinetik shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kinetik has a net margin of 29.62% compared to Kinetik's net margin of 9.46%. Kinetik's return on equity of 3.28% beat Rattler Midstream's return on equity.
Rattler Midstream has a beta of 2.86, meaning that its stock price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinetik has a beta of 2.81, meaning that its stock price is 181% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Rattler Midstream received 59 more outperform votes than Kinetik when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.28% of users gave Rattler Midstream an outperform vote while only 36.84% of users gave Kinetik an outperform vote.
Summary
Kinetik beats Rattler Midstream on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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