KRP vs. SM, CPG, VRN, MGY, SSL, VIST, ERF, NOG, CNX, and CRC
Should you be buying Kimbell Royalty Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kimbell Royalty Partners include SM Energy (SM), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), Veren (VRN), Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY), Sasol (SSL), Vista Energy (VIST), Enerplus (ERF), Northern Oil and Gas (NOG), CNX Resources (CNX), and California Resources (CRC). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Kimbell Royalty Partners (NYSE:KRP) and SM Energy (NYSE:SM) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation and media sentiment.
25.8% of Kimbell Royalty Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.6% of SM Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of Kimbell Royalty Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of SM Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SM Energy has a net margin of 31.80% compared to Kimbell Royalty Partners' net margin of 12.93%. SM Energy's return on equity of 20.10% beat Kimbell Royalty Partners' return on equity.
Kimbell Royalty Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%. SM Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Kimbell Royalty Partners pays out 326.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SM Energy pays out 11.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
SM Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Kimbell Royalty Partners. SM Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kimbell Royalty Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SM Energy had 15 more articles in the media than Kimbell Royalty Partners. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for SM Energy and 1 mentions for Kimbell Royalty Partners. Kimbell Royalty Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat SM Energy's score of 0.90 indicating that Kimbell Royalty Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kimbell Royalty Partners presently has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.26%. SM Energy has a consensus target price of $54.57, suggesting a potential upside of 11.50%. Given Kimbell Royalty Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Kimbell Royalty Partners is more favorable than SM Energy.
SM Energy received 511 more outperform votes than Kimbell Royalty Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.26% of users gave Kimbell Royalty Partners an outperform vote while only 65.72% of users gave SM Energy an outperform vote.
Kimbell Royalty Partners has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SM Energy has a beta of 4.21, meaning that its stock price is 321% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
SM Energy beats Kimbell Royalty Partners on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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