Comparing YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF) & OMV Aktiengesellschaft (OTCMKTS:OMVKY)

YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF) and OMV Aktiengesellschaft (OTCMKTS:OMVKY) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for YPF Sociedad Anónima and OMV Aktiengesellschaft, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
YPF Sociedad Anónima	0	5	1	0	2.17
OMV Aktiengesellschaft	0	0	0	0	N/A

YPF Sociedad Anónima presently has a consensus target price of $20.58, indicating a potential downside of 13.81%. Given YPF Sociedad Anónima’s higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe YPF Sociedad Anónima is more favorable than OMV Aktiengesellschaft.

Dividends

YPF Sociedad Anónima pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. OMV Aktiengesellschaft pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. YPF Sociedad Anónima pays out -4.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. OMV Aktiengesellschaft pays out 52.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares YPF Sociedad Anónima and OMV Aktiengesellschaft’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
YPF Sociedad Anónima	$17.00 billion	0.55	-$1.31 billion	($3.35)	-7.13
OMV Aktiengesellschaft	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.80	6.72

OMV Aktiengesellschaft has lower revenue, but higher earnings than YPF Sociedad Anónima. YPF Sociedad Anónima is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OMV Aktiengesellschaft, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares YPF Sociedad Anónima and OMV Aktiengesellschaft’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
YPF Sociedad Anónima	-7.58%	17.33%	6.98%
OMV Aktiengesellschaft	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider & Institutional Ownership

10.1% of YPF Sociedad Anónima shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of OMV Aktiengesellschaft shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

YPF Sociedad Anónima beats OMV Aktiengesellschaft on 7 of the 11 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 OMV Aktiengesellschaft

OMV Aktiengesellschaft operates as an energy and chemicals company in Austria, Germany, Romania, Norway, Belgium, New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates, the rest of Central and Eastern Europe, the rest of Europe, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Chemicals & Materials, Fuels & Feedstock, and Energy. The company engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas in the regions of Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the North Sea, and the Asia Pacific; and refining and marketing of fuels and feedstock, as well as supply, marketing, trading, and logistics of gas in Romania and Turkey. In addition, the company provides advanced and circular polyolefin solutions, and base chemicals, as well as engages in the recycling of plastics. It has refineries in Europe, Schwechat, and Burghausen; filling stations in eight European countries; and gas storage facilities in Austria and Germany, as well as a gas-fired power plant in Romania. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.