CHK vs. AR, XEC, PE, CVE, FANG, DVN, EC, CTRA, EQT, and MRO
Should you be buying Chesapeake Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chesapeake Energy include Antero Resources (AR), Cimarex Energy (XEC), Parsley Energy (PE), Cenovus Energy (CVE), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Devon Energy (DVN), Ecopetrol (EC), Coterra Energy (CTRA), EQT (EQT), and Marathon Oil (MRO). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Antero Resources (NYSE:AR) and Chesapeake Energy (NASDAQ:CHK) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Antero Resources has a beta of 3.28, suggesting that its share price is 228% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chesapeake Energy has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
83.0% of Antero Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.9% of Chesapeake Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of Antero Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Chesapeake Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Chesapeake Energy has a net margin of 16.42% compared to Chesapeake Energy's net margin of 1.50%. Antero Resources' return on equity of 4.87% beat Chesapeake Energy's return on equity.
Antero Resources received 692 more outperform votes than Chesapeake Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.79% of users gave Antero Resources an outperform vote while only 56.60% of users gave Chesapeake Energy an outperform vote.
Antero Resources presently has a consensus price target of $33.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.00%. Chesapeake Energy has a consensus price target of $106.67, suggesting a potential upside of 20.81%. Given Antero Resources' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Chesapeake Energy is more favorable than Antero Resources.
Chesapeake Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Antero Resources. Chesapeake Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Antero Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Antero Resources had 4 more articles in the media than Chesapeake Energy. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Antero Resources and 4 mentions for Chesapeake Energy. Antero Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Chesapeake Energy's score of 1.27 indicating that Chesapeake Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Chesapeake Energy beats Antero Resources on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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