Gran Tierra Energy (NYSE:GTE – Get Free Report) and Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD – Get Free Report) are both energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and profitability.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Gran Tierra Energy and Enterprise Products Partners, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Gran Tierra Energy | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3.33 |
| Enterprise Products Partners | 1 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 2.33 |
Gran Tierra Energy presently has a consensus price target of $9.72, suggesting a potential downside of 14.54%. Enterprise Products Partners has a consensus price target of $40.12, suggesting a potential upside of 9.02%. Given Enterprise Products Partners’ higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Enterprise Products Partners is more favorable than Gran Tierra Energy.
Risk and Volatility
Gran Tierra Energy has a beta of 0.37, indicating that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Gran Tierra Energy and Enterprise Products Partners’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gran Tierra Energy | 7.17% | 11.36% | 3.28% |
| Enterprise Products Partners | 10.79% | 20.67% | 7.93% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Gran Tierra Energy and Enterprise Products Partners”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Gran Tierra Energy | $638.42 million | 0.63 | -$6.29 million | ($7.25) | -1.57 |
| Enterprise Products Partners | $52.60 billion | 1.51 | $5.81 billion | $2.88 | 12.78 |
Enterprise Products Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Gran Tierra Energy. Gran Tierra Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enterprise Products Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
31.7% of Gran Tierra Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 5.8% of Gran Tierra Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by 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
Enterprise Products Partners beats Gran Tierra Energy on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Gran Tierra Energy
Gran Tierra Energy Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration and production of oil and gas properties in Colombia and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
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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