CAPL vs. WKC, AE, BANL, RUN, NEP, BTU, ARLP, CRC, ARCH, and AROC
Should you be buying CrossAmerica Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CrossAmerica Partners include World Kinect (WKC), Adams Resources & Energy (AE), CBL International (BANL), Sunrun (RUN), NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), Peabody Energy (BTU), Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), California Resources (CRC), Arch Resources (ARCH), and Archrock (AROC).
World Kinect (NYSE:WKC) and CrossAmerica Partners (NYSE:CAPL) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and earnings.
CrossAmerica Partners has a net margin of 0.56% compared to CrossAmerica Partners' net margin of 0.12%. World Kinect's return on equity of 701.44% beat CrossAmerica Partners' return on equity.
World Kinect has higher revenue and earnings than CrossAmerica Partners. World Kinect is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CrossAmerica Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CrossAmerica Partners received 344 more outperform votes than World Kinect when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.60% of users gave CrossAmerica Partners an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave World Kinect an outperform vote.
97.1% of World Kinect shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.1% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of World Kinect shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 52.0% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
World Kinect currently has a consensus price target of $26.75, indicating a potential upside of 3.08%. Given CrossAmerica Partners' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe World Kinect is more favorable than CrossAmerica Partners.
World Kinect pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. CrossAmerica Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.4%. World Kinect pays out 73.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CrossAmerica Partners pays out 344.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. World Kinect has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
World Kinect has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CrossAmerica Partners has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, World Kinect had 6 more articles in the media than CrossAmerica Partners. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for World Kinect and 1 mentions for CrossAmerica Partners. CrossAmerica Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat World Kinect's score of 1.05 indicating that World Kinect is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
World Kinect and CrossAmerica Partners tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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