COP vs. EOG, PXD, FANG, DVN, EQT, MRO, RRC, SWN, MTDR, and SM
Should you be buying ConocoPhillips stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ConocoPhillips include EOG Resources (EOG), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Devon Energy (DVN), EQT (EQT), Marathon Oil (MRO), Range Resources (RRC), Southwestern Energy (SWN), Matador Resources (MTDR), and SM Energy (SM). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas exploration & production" industry.
EOG Resources (NYSE:EOG) and ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) 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, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
89.9% of EOG Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.4% of ConocoPhillips shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of EOG Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of ConocoPhillips shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
EOG Resources presently has a consensus price target of $142.09, suggesting a potential upside of 14.08%. ConocoPhillips has a consensus price target of $144.65, suggesting a potential upside of 24.18%. Given EOG Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe ConocoPhillips is more favorable than EOG Resources.
ConocoPhillips has higher revenue and earnings than EOG Resources. EOG Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ConocoPhillips, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EOG Resources has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ConocoPhillips has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
EOG Resources received 410 more outperform votes than ConocoPhillips when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.25% of users gave EOG Resources an outperform vote while only 66.37% of users gave ConocoPhillips an outperform vote.
EOG Resources has a net margin of 30.33% compared to EOG Resources' net margin of 18.40%. ConocoPhillips' return on equity of 24.83% beat EOG Resources' return on equity.
EOG Resources pays an annual dividend of $3.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. ConocoPhillips pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. EOG Resources pays out 28.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ConocoPhillips pays out 26.3% 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. EOG Resources has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years and ConocoPhillips has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. EOG Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, ConocoPhillips had 41 more articles in the media than EOG Resources. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for ConocoPhillips and 11 mentions for EOG Resources. ConocoPhillips' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat EOG Resources' score of 0.68 indicating that EOG Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
EOG Resources beats ConocoPhillips on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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