AMR vs. ARCH, ARLP, BTU, NRP, NC, IP, BG, ALB, GFI, and CF
Should you be buying Alpha Metallurgical Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alpha Metallurgical Resources include Arch Resources (ARCH), Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Peabody Energy (BTU), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), NACCO Industries (NC), International Paper (IP), Bunge Global (BG), Albemarle (ALB), Gold Fields (GFI), and CF Industries (CF).
Alpha Metallurgical Resources (NYSE:AMR) and Arch Resources (NYSE:ARCH) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources currently has a consensus price target of $284.50, indicating a potential downside of 8.14%. Arch Resources has a consensus price target of $177.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.43%. Given Arch Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Arch Resources is more favorable than Alpha Metallurgical Resources.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources has a net margin of 16.89% compared to Arch Resources' net margin of 10.89%. Alpha Metallurgical Resources' return on equity of 36.77% beat Arch Resources' return on equity.
Arch Resources received 358 more outperform votes than Alpha Metallurgical Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.27% of users gave Alpha Metallurgical Resources an outperform vote while only 61.68% of users gave Arch Resources an outperform vote.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Arch Resources. Alpha Metallurgical Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arch Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arch Resources has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Arch Resources had 1 more articles in the media than Alpha Metallurgical Resources. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Arch Resources and 3 mentions for Alpha Metallurgical Resources. Arch Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Alpha Metallurgical Resources' score of 1.20 indicating that Arch Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
84.3% of Alpha Metallurgical Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.1% of Arch Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.0% of Alpha Metallurgical Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Arch Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Alpha Metallurgical Resources beats Arch Resources on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding AMR and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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