OXY vs. HES, MUR, XOM, CVX, TTE, PBR, CNQ, EOG, PXD, and E
Should you be buying Occidental Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Occidental Petroleum include Hess (HES), Murphy Oil (MUR), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), TotalEnergies (TTE), Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras (PBR), Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ), EOG Resources (EOG), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), and ENI (E). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Hess (NYSE:HES) and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Hess has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Occidental Petroleum has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Occidental Petroleum received 65 more outperform votes than Hess when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.16% of users gave Occidental Petroleum an outperform vote while only 61.05% of users gave Hess an outperform vote.
Hess presently has a consensus price target of $178.08, indicating a potential upside of 15.56%. Occidental Petroleum has a consensus price target of $70.94, indicating a potential upside of 13.51%. Given Occidental Petroleum's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Hess is more favorable than Occidental Petroleum.
Hess pays an annual dividend of $1.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Occidental Petroleum pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Hess pays out 26.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Occidental Petroleum pays out 24.0% 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. Hess has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Occidental Petroleum has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Occidental Petroleum is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Occidental Petroleum has higher revenue and earnings than Hess. Occidental Petroleum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hess, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hess has a net margin of 17.41% compared to Hess' net margin of 15.62%. Occidental Petroleum's return on equity of 22.73% beat Hess' return on equity.
88.5% of Hess shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of Occidental Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. 9.8% of Hess shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Occidental Petroleum shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Hess had 26 more articles in the media than Occidental Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for Hess and 19 mentions for Occidental Petroleum. Hess' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Occidental Petroleum's score of 0.55 indicating that Occidental Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Occidental Petroleum beats Hess on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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