SunocoCorp (SUNC) versus Its Peers Financial Survey

SunocoCorp (NYSE:SUNC) is one of 1,052 publicly-traded companies in the “Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare SunocoCorp to related businesses based on the strength of its earnings, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for SunocoCorp and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SunocoCorp	1	1	3	1	2.67
SunocoCorp Competitors	5784	26340	39847	2256	2.52

SunocoCorp presently has a consensus target price of $81.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.21%. As a group, “Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels” companies have a potential upside of 34.99%. Given SunocoCorp’s peers higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SunocoCorp has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares SunocoCorp and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
SunocoCorp	$25.20 billion	-$5.00 million	26.14
SunocoCorp Competitors	$10.60 billion	$5.51 billion	1.20

SunocoCorp has higher revenue, but lower earnings than its peers. SunocoCorp is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Dividends

SunocoCorp pays an annual dividend of $4.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. SunocoCorp pays out 138.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. As a group, “Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels” companies pay a dividend yield of 13.2% and pay out -113.0% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. SunocoCorp lags its peers as a dividend stock, given its lower dividend yield and higher payout ratio.

Profitability

This table compares SunocoCorp and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SunocoCorp	N/A	N/A	N/A
SunocoCorp Competitors	-490.36%	3.97%	5.68%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

30.6% of shares of all “Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels” companies are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of SunocoCorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.3% of shares of all “Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

SunocoCorp peers beat SunocoCorp on 9 of the 14 factors compared.

SunocoCorp Company Profile

Sunoco LP is an energy infrastructure and fuel distribution master limited partnership. Sunoco LP is based in DALLAS.