YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF – Get Free Report) and Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD – Get Free Report) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for YPF Sociedad Anónima and Enterprise Products Partners, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| YPF Sociedad Anónima | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2.50 |
| Enterprise Products Partners | 1 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2.44 |
YPF Sociedad Anónima presently has a consensus price target of $60.33, suggesting a potential upside of 7.59%. Enterprise Products Partners has a consensus price target of $39.87, suggesting a potential upside of 1.36%. Given YPF Sociedad Anónima’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe YPF Sociedad Anónima is more favorable than Enterprise Products Partners.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| YPF Sociedad Anónima | $18.45 billion | 1.20 | -$826.00 million | $1.90 | 29.52 |
| Enterprise Products Partners | $52.60 billion | 1.61 | $5.81 billion | $2.88 | 13.66 |
Enterprise Products Partners has higher revenue and earnings than YPF Sociedad Anónima. Enterprise Products Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than YPF Sociedad Anónima, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares YPF Sociedad Anónima and Enterprise Products Partners’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| YPF Sociedad Anónima | 3.60% | 10.86% | 4.20% |
| Enterprise Products Partners | 10.79% | 20.67% | 7.93% |
Volatility and Risk
YPF Sociedad Anónima has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
10.1% of YPF Sociedad Anónima shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Enterprise Products Partners beats YPF Sociedad Anónima on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About YPF Sociedad Anónima
YPF Sociedad Anónima, an energy company, engages in the oil and gas upstream and downstream activities in Argentina. Its upstream operations include the exploration, exploitation, and production of crude oil, and natural gas. The company’s downstream operations include petrochemical production and crude oil refining; transportation and distribution refined and petrochemical products; commercialization of crude oil, petrochemical products, and specialties. Its gas and power operations include transportation, commercialization, and distribution of natural gas; operation of regasification terminals; conditioning, processing, and separation of natural gas; and power generation. The company had interests in oil and gas fields. It also had a retail distribution network and retail service stations. In addition, the company owns and operates refineries, as well as maintains terminal facilities Argentine ports. Further, it participates in power generation plants; offers diesel, fertilizers, lubricants, phytosanitary products, and ensiling bags; and supplies diesel, gasoline, fuel oil, coal, asphalts, paraffin, and sulfur, CO2, decanted oil, and aromatic extract. The company was incorporated in 1977 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
About Enterprise Products Partners
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. provides midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil, petrochemicals, and refined products. It operates in four segments: NGL Pipelines & Services, Crude Oil Pipelines & Services, Natural Gas Pipelines & Services, and Petrochemical & Refined Products Services. The NGL Pipelines & Services segment offers natural gas processing and related NGL marketing services. It operates natural gas processing facilities located in Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming; NGL pipelines; NGL fractionation facilities; NGL and related product storage facilities; and NGL marine terminals. The Crude Oil Pipelines & Services segment operates crude oil pipelines; and crude oil storage and marine terminals, which include a fleet of approximately 250 tractor-trailer tank trucks that are used to transport crude oil. It also engages in crude oil marketing activities. The Natural Gas Pipelines & Services segment operates natural gas pipeline systems to gather, treat, and transport natural gas. It leases underground salt dome natural gas storage facilities in Napoleonville, Louisiana; owns an underground salt dome storage cavern in Wharton County, Texas; and markets natural gas. The Petrochemical & Refined Products Services segment operates propylene fractionation facilities, including propylene fractionation units and propane dehydrogenation facilities, and related marketing activities; butane isomerization complex and related deisobutanizer operations; and octane enhancement, isobutane dehydrogenation, and high purity isobutylene production facilities. It also operates refined products pipelines and terminals; and ethylene export terminals; and provides refined products marketing and marine transportation services. Enterprise Products Partners L.P. was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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