ARLP vs. ARCH, BTU, NRP, CRK, NEP, KOS, USAC, NS, TALO, and FLNC
Should you be buying Alliance Resource Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliance Resource Partners include Arch Resources (ARCH), Peabody Energy (BTU), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), Comstock Resources (CRK), NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), Kosmos Energy (KOS), USA Compression Partners (USAC), NuStar Energy (NS), Talos Energy (TALO), and Fluence Energy (FLNC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Arch Resources (NYSE:ARCH) and Alliance Resource Partners (NASDAQ:ARLP) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Arch Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Alliance Resource Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.0%. Arch Resources pays out 5.9% 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 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 has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
88.1% of Arch Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.1% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Arch Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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 32.06% beat Alliance Resource Partners' return on equity.
Arch Resources currently has a consensus price target of $177.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.65%. Alliance Resource Partners has a consensus price target of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.53%. Given Alliance Resource Partners' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly 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.
Arch Resources has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less 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.
In the previous week, Alliance Resource Partners had 14 more articles in the media than Arch Resources. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Alliance Resource Partners and 7 mentions for Arch Resources. Arch Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Alliance Resource Partners' score of 0.44 indicating that Alliance Resource Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Alliance Resource Partners beats Arch Resources on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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