Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) and Pyxis Tankers (NASDAQ:PXSAW) Head to Head Review

Pyxis Tankers (NASDAQ:PXSAW) and Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) are both energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Pyxis Tankers and Enterprise Products Partners, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pyxis Tankers	0	0	0	0	N/A
Enterprise Products Partners	0	2	10	1	2.92

Enterprise Products Partners has a consensus target price of $32.58, indicating a potential upside of 12.34%. Given Enterprise Products Partners’ higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Enterprise Products Partners is more favorable than Pyxis Tankers.

Profitability

This table compares Pyxis Tankers and Enterprise Products Partners’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pyxis Tankers	N/A	N/A	N/A
Enterprise Products Partners	11.12%	19.65%	8.04%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Pyxis Tankers and Enterprise Products Partners’ gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pyxis Tankers	$45.47 million	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Enterprise Products Partners	$49.72 billion	1.27	$5.53 billion	$2.52	11.51

Enterprise Products Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Pyxis Tankers.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by company 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

Enterprise Products Partners beats Pyxis Tankers on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Pyxis Tankers

Pyxis Tankers Inc. operates as a maritime transportation company with a focus on the tanker sector in the United States. Its fleet transports refined petroleum products, such as naphtha, gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, diesel, and fuel oil, as well as other liquid bulk items, including vegetable oils and organic chemicals. As of March 31, 2023, the company operated a fleet of four tankers. Pyxis Tankers Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Maroussi, Greece. Pyxis Tankers Inc. is a subsidiary of Maritime Investors Corp.

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.