ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P. vs SOUTHERN CO, two Utilities stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Enterprise Products Partners is the largest midstream master limited partnership, moving oil, gas, and natural-gas liquids through a continent-spanning network and passing cash to unitholders as distributions reported on a K-1. Southern Company is a regulated electric utility, earning an approved return on its asset base and paying an ordinary dividend. Southern books the wider net margin, 14.46 percent to Enterprise's 11.44, but its heavy grid spending pushed free cash yield to negative 3.17 percent, while Enterprise generated a positive 2.75. Southern is larger at 109.4 billion versus Enterprise's 80. The choice between them is partly a tax one: a K-1 partnership distribution against a corporation's qualified dividend.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | EPD | SO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $37.27 | $95.61 |
| Market cap | $81.5B | $107.8B |
| Sector | Utilities | Utilities |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| P/E | — | 24.4 |
| P/B | — | 2.70 |
| P/S | 1.58 | 3.57 |
| EV/EBITDA | 12.1 | 14.9 |
| Revenue growth | -9.5% | +8.6% |
| Operating margin | 13.2% | 24.0% |
| Net margin | 11.4% | 14.5% |
| Return on equity | — | 10.9% |
| Return on assets | 7.3% | 2.8% |
| Return on invested capital | 21.5% | 15.0% |
| FCF yield | 2.7% | -3.2% |
| Dividend yield | — | 3.1% |
| Debt / equity | — | 0.04 |
| Current ratio | 0.91 | 0.65 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.69 | 0.75 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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