ENLC vs. WES, AM, DTM, KNTK, ETRN, AROC, TGS, USAC, KGS, and NGL
Should you be buying EnLink Midstream stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EnLink Midstream include Western Midstream Partners (WES), Antero Midstream (AM), DT Midstream (DTM), Kinetik (KNTK), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), Archrock (AROC), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), USA Compression Partners (USAC), Kodiak Gas Services (KGS), and NGL Energy Partners (NGL). These companies are all part of the "natural gas transmission" industry.
Western Midstream Partners (NYSE:WES) and EnLink Midstream (NYSE:ENLC) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Western Midstream Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than EnLink Midstream. Western Midstream Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EnLink Midstream, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Western Midstream Partners currently has a consensus target price of $31.55, indicating a potential downside of 16.44%. EnLink Midstream has a consensus target price of $14.33, indicating a potential upside of 12.59%. Given Western Midstream Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe EnLink Midstream is more favorable than Western Midstream Partners.
Western Midstream Partners received 250 more outperform votes than EnLink Midstream when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.00% of users gave Western Midstream Partners an outperform vote while only 50.08% of users gave EnLink Midstream an outperform vote.
Western Midstream Partners has a beta of 2.82, indicating that its share price is 182% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EnLink Midstream has a beta of 2.39, indicating that its share price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Western Midstream Partners pays an annual dividend of $3.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. EnLink Midstream pays an annual dividend of $0.53 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. 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. EnLink Midstream pays out 151.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Western Midstream Partners has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years and EnLink Midstream has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Western Midstream Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, EnLink Midstream had 4 more articles in the media than Western Midstream Partners. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for EnLink Midstream and 14 mentions for Western Midstream Partners. EnLink Midstream's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Western Midstream Partners' score of 0.14 indicating that Western Midstream Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Western Midstream Partners has a net margin of 42.50% compared to Western Midstream Partners' net margin of 2.40%. EnLink Midstream'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, 45.9% of EnLink Midstream shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Western Midstream Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of EnLink Midstream shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Western Midstream Partners beats EnLink Midstream on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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