BTU vs. ARLP, ARCH, NRP, CVI, TGS, KOS, NEP, CRK, NS, and SEDG
Should you be buying Peabody Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peabody Energy include Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Arch Resources (ARCH), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), CVR Energy (CVI), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), Kosmos Energy (KOS), NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), Comstock Resources (CRK), NuStar Energy (NS), and SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU) and Alliance Resource Partners (NASDAQ:ARLP) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Peabody Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Alliance Resource Partners. Alliance Resource Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Peabody Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Peabody Energy has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alliance Resource Partners has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alliance Resource Partners has a net margin of 23.36% compared to Peabody Energy's net margin of 11.62%. Alliance Resource Partners' return on equity of 31.68% beat Peabody Energy's return on equity.
Peabody Energy currently has a consensus target price of $28.25, indicating a potential upside of 19.35%. Alliance Resource Partners has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.71%. Given Peabody Energy's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Peabody Energy is more favorable than Alliance Resource Partners.
Peabody Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Alliance Resource Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.8%. Peabody Energy pays out 8.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alliance Resource Partners pays out 61.3% 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 received 72 more outperform votes than Peabody Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.74% of users gave Alliance Resource Partners an outperform vote while only 64.20% of users gave Peabody Energy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Alliance Resource Partners had 4 more articles in the media than Peabody Energy. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Alliance Resource Partners and 0 mentions for Peabody Energy. Alliance Resource Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Peabody Energy's score of 0.00 indicating that Alliance Resource Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
87.4% of Peabody Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.1% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Peabody Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Alliance Resource Partners beats Peabody Energy on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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