MRO vs. FANG, DVN, EQT, RRC, SWN, MTDR, SM, CRK, KOS, and SBOW
Should you be buying Marathon Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marathon Oil include Diamondback Energy (FANG), Devon Energy (DVN), EQT (EQT), Range Resources (RRC), Southwestern Energy (SWN), Matador Resources (MTDR), SM Energy (SM), Comstock Resources (CRK), Kosmos Energy (KOS), and SilverBow Resources (SBOW). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas exploration & production" industry.
Diamondback Energy (NASDAQ:FANG) and Marathon Oil (NYSE:MRO) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
Diamondback Energy presently has a consensus price target of $205.95, suggesting a potential upside of 3.36%. Marathon Oil has a consensus price target of $32.81, suggesting a potential upside of 13.28%. Given Diamondback Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Marathon Oil is more favorable than Diamondback Energy.
Diamondback Energy has a net margin of 36.71% compared to Diamondback Energy's net margin of 21.83%. Marathon Oil's return on equity of 19.36% beat Diamondback Energy's return on equity.
Diamondback Energy has a beta of 1.91, meaning that its stock price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marathon Oil has a beta of 2.22, meaning that its stock price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Marathon Oil had 13 more articles in the media than Diamondback Energy. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Marathon Oil and 22 mentions for Diamondback Energy. Marathon Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Diamondback Energy's score of 0.74 indicating that Diamondback Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Diamondback Energy pays an annual dividend of $3.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Marathon Oil pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Diamondback Energy pays out 20.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Marathon Oil pays out 18.2% 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. Diamondback Energy has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Marathon Oil has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Diamondback Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Diamondback Energy received 318 more outperform votes than Marathon Oil when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.13% of users gave Diamondback Energy an outperform vote while only 65.92% of users gave Marathon Oil an outperform vote.
90.0% of Diamondback Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.2% of Marathon Oil shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Diamondback Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Marathon Oil shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Diamondback Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Marathon Oil. Diamondback Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marathon Oil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Diamondback Energy beats Marathon Oil on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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