SXC vs. CLB, BORR, SBR, GRNT, NESR, SOC, OPAL, NBR, SBOW, and REX
Should you be buying SunCoke Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SunCoke Energy include Core Laboratories (CLB), Borr Drilling (BORR), Sabine Royalty Trust (SBR), Granite Ridge Resources (GRNT), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), Sable Offshore (SOC), OPAL Fuels (OPAL), Nabors Industries (NBR), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), and REX American Resources (REX). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
SunCoke Energy (NYSE:SXC) and Core Laboratories (NYSE:CLB) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
SunCoke Energy presently has a consensus price target of $11.50, indicating a potential upside of 7.98%. Core Laboratories has a consensus price target of $18.75, indicating a potential upside of 1.41%. Given SunCoke Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SunCoke Energy is more favorable than Core Laboratories.
Core Laboratories received 61 more outperform votes than SunCoke Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.18% of users gave SunCoke Energy an outperform vote while only 55.18% of users gave Core Laboratories an outperform vote.
SunCoke Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Core Laboratories pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. SunCoke Energy pays out 56.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Core Laboratories pays out 4.5% 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.
SunCoke Energy has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Core Laboratories has a beta of 2.4, meaning that its stock price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Core Laboratories has a net margin of 8.18% compared to SunCoke Energy's net margin of 2.97%. Core Laboratories' return on equity of 15.71% beat SunCoke Energy's return on equity.
90.5% of SunCoke Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of Core Laboratories shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of SunCoke Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Core Laboratories shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Core Laboratories had 2 more articles in the media than SunCoke Energy. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Core Laboratories and 1 mentions for SunCoke Energy. SunCoke Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Core Laboratories' score of 0.92 indicating that SunCoke Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SunCoke Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Core Laboratories. SunCoke Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Core Laboratories, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Core Laboratories beats SunCoke Energy on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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