Head to Head Survey: Hess Midstream Partners (NYSE:HESM) vs. XPLR Infrastructure (NYSE:XIFR)

Hess Midstream Partners (NYSE:HESM) and XPLR Infrastructure (NYSE:XIFR) are both energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Hess Midstream Partners and XPLR Infrastructure”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Hess Midstream Partners	$1.50 billion	5.98	$223.10 million	$2.70	15.38
XPLR Infrastructure	$1.23 billion	0.74	-$23.00 million	($1.72)	-5.63

Hess Midstream Partners has higher revenue and earnings than XPLR Infrastructure. XPLR Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hess Midstream Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Hess Midstream Partners and XPLR Infrastructure, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hess Midstream Partners	0	2	3	0	2.60
XPLR Infrastructure	2	9	2	0	2.00

Hess Midstream Partners presently has a consensus target price of $45.80, suggesting a potential upside of 10.32%. XPLR Infrastructure has a consensus target price of $16.7692, suggesting a potential upside of 73.24%. Given XPLR Infrastructure’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe XPLR Infrastructure is more favorable than Hess Midstream Partners.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

99.0% of Hess Midstream Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.0% of XPLR Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of XPLR Infrastructure shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Hess Midstream Partners and XPLR Infrastructure’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hess Midstream Partners	18.52%	60.37%	6.85%
XPLR Infrastructure	-12.94%	1.80%	1.12%

Volatility and Risk

Hess Midstream Partners has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, XPLR Infrastructure has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Hess Midstream Partners beats XPLR Infrastructure on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Hess Midstream Partners

Hess Midstream LP owns, develops, operates, and acquires midstream assets and provide fee-based services to Hess and third-party customers in the United States. It operates through three segments: Gathering; Processing and Storage; and Terminaling and Export. The Gathering segment owns natural gas gathering and compression systems; crude oil gathering systems; and produced water gathering and disposal facilities. Its gathering systems consists of approximately 1,410 miles of high and low pressure natural gas and natural gas liquids gathering pipelines with capacity of approximately 660 million cubic feet per day; crude oil gathering system comprises approximately 570 miles of crude oil gathering pipelines; and produced water gathering system that includes approximately 300 miles of pipelines in gathering systems. The Processing and Storage segment comprises Tioga Gas Plant, a natural gas processing and fractionation plant located in Tioga, North Dakota; a 50% interest in the Little Missouri 4 gas processing plant located in south of the Missouri River in McKenzie County, North Dakota; and Mentor Storage Terminal, a propane storage cavern and rail, and truck loading and unloading facility located in Mentor, Minnesota. The Terminaling and Export segment owns Ramberg terminal facility; Tioga rail terminal; crude oil rail cars; and other Dakota access pipeline connections, as well as Johnson's Corner Header System, a crude oil pipeline header system. Hess Midstream LP was founded in 2014 and is based in Houston, Texas.

About XPLR Infrastructure

XPLR Infrastructure LP engages in the acquisition, management, and ownership of contracted clean energy projects with long-term cash flows. It owns interests in wind and solar projects in North America and natural gas infrastructure assets in Texas. The company was founded on March 6, 2014 and is headquartered in Juno Beach, FL.