ARCH vs. ARLP, BTU, NRP, TGS, CVI, KOS, NEP, CRK, NS, and PFHC
Should you be buying Arch Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arch Resources include Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Peabody Energy (BTU), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), CVR Energy (CVI), Kosmos Energy (KOS), NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), Comstock Resources (CRK), NuStar Energy (NS), and ProFrac (PFHC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Alliance Resource Partners (NASDAQ:ARLP) and Arch Resources (NYSE:ARCH) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
Alliance Resource Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Arch Resources. Alliance Resource Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arch Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alliance Resource Partners has a net margin of 23.36% compared to Alliance Resource Partners' net margin of 10.89%. Arch Resources' return on equity of 31.68% beat Alliance Resource Partners' return on equity.
Alliance Resource Partners has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arch Resources has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
18.1% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.1% of Arch Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.8% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Arch Resources shares are owned by insiders. 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.
Alliance Resource Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.3%. Arch Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Alliance Resource Partners pays out 61.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Arch Resources pays out 5.9% 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. Alliance Resource Partners has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Alliance Resource Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Alliance Resource Partners presently has a consensus price target of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.55%. Arch Resources has a consensus price target of $177.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.75%. Given Alliance Resource Partners' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Arch Resources is more favorable than Alliance Resource Partners.
Arch Resources received 135 more outperform votes than Alliance Resource Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.74% of users gave Alliance Resource Partners an outperform vote while only 61.68% of users gave Arch Resources an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Arch Resources had 1 more articles in the media than Alliance Resource Partners. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Arch Resources and 1 mentions for Alliance Resource Partners. Alliance Resource Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Arch Resources' score of 0.96 indicating that Arch Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Alliance Resource Partners beats Arch Resources on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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