Toro (NASDAQ:TORO – Get Free Report) and Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB – Get Free Report) are both energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Toro and Williams Companies, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Toro | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Williams Companies | 0 | 1 | 17 | 4 | 3.14 |
Williams Companies has a consensus target price of $86.35, suggesting a potential upside of 22.55%. Given Williams Companies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Williams Companies is more favorable than Toro.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Toro | 22.67% | 2.49% | 1.43% |
| Williams Companies | 25.17% | 18.49% | 4.75% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
1.7% of Toro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.4% of Williams Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Williams Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Toro and Williams Companies”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Toro | $21.08 million | 5.48 | $5.93 million | $0.04 | 134.50 |
| Williams Companies | $11.95 billion | 7.21 | $2.62 billion | $2.51 | 28.07 |
Williams Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Toro. Williams Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Toro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
Toro has a beta of 2.59, suggesting that its share price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Williams Companies has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Williams Companies beats Toro on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Toro
Toro Corp., a shipping company, acquires, owns, charters, and operates oceangoing tanker vessels and provides seaborne transportation services for crude oil LPG, and refined petroleum products worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Aframax/LR2 Tanker, Handysize Tanker, and LPG Carrier. As of December 31, 2023, it operated a fleet of one Handysize tanker vessel; one Aframax/LR2 vessel; and four LPG carrier vessels with an aggregate cargo carrying capacity of 0.1 million deadweight ton. Toro Corp. was incorporated in 2022 and is based in Limassol, Cyprus.
About Williams Companies
The Williams Companies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy infrastructure company primarily in the United States. It operates through Transmission & Gulf of Mexico, Northeast G&P, West, and Gas & NGL Marketing Services segments. The Transmission & Gulf of Mexico segment comprises natural gas pipelines; Transco, Northwest pipeline, MountainWest, and related natural gas storage facilities; and natural gas gathering and processing, and crude oil production handling and transportation assets in the Gulf Coast region. The Northeast G&P segment engages in the midstream gathering, processing, and fractionation activities in the Marcellus Shale region primarily in Pennsylvania and New York, and the Utica Shale region of eastern Ohio. The West segment consists of gas gathering, processing, and treating operations in the Rocky Mountain region of Colorado and Wyoming, the Barnett Shale region of north-central Texas, the Eagle Ford Shale region of South Texas, the Haynesville Shale region of northwest Louisiana, the Mid-Continent region that includes the Anadarko and Permian basins, and the DJ Basin of Colorado; and operates natural gas liquid (NGL) fractionation and storage facilities in central Kansas near Conway. The Gas & NGL Marketing Services segment provides wholesale marketing, trading, storage, and transportation of natural gas for natural gas utilities, municipalities, power generators, and producers; asset management services; and transports and markets NGLs. The company owns and operates 33,000 miles of pipelines. The Williams Companies, Inc. was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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