MNTK vs. OPAL, BRY, PBT, TXO, NR, NOVA, SOC, REPX, DRQ, and GPRK
Should you be buying Montauk Renewables stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Montauk Renewables include OPAL Fuels (OPAL), Berry (BRY), Permian Basin Royalty Trust (PBT), TXO Partners (TXO), Newpark Resources (NR), Sunnova Energy International (NOVA), Sable Offshore (SOC), Riley Exploration Permian (REPX), Dril-Quip (DRQ), and GeoPark (GPRK). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
OPAL Fuels (NASDAQ:OPAL) and Montauk Renewables (NASDAQ:MNTK) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and community ranking.
OPAL Fuels presently has a consensus target price of $9.29, indicating a potential upside of 83.15%. Montauk Renewables has a consensus target price of $7.75, indicating a potential upside of 65.95%. Given Montauk Renewables' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe OPAL Fuels is more favorable than Montauk Renewables.
In the previous week, Montauk Renewables had 12 more articles in the media than OPAL Fuels. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Montauk Renewables and 11 mentions for OPAL Fuels. OPAL Fuels' average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Montauk Renewables' score of -0.02 indicating that Montauk Renewables is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
OPAL Fuels has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Montauk Renewables has a beta of -0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 140% less volatile than the S&P 500.
OPAL Fuels has higher revenue and earnings than Montauk Renewables. OPAL Fuels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Montauk Renewables, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Montauk Renewables has a net margin of 10.58% compared to Montauk Renewables' net margin of 9.23%. OPAL Fuels' return on equity of 8.56% beat Montauk Renewables' return on equity.
12.2% of OPAL Fuels shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.4% of Montauk Renewables shares are held by institutional investors. 84.8% of OPAL Fuels shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 54.2% of Montauk Renewables shares are held by company 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.
OPAL Fuels received 2 more outperform votes than Montauk Renewables when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.43% of users gave OPAL Fuels an outperform vote while only 35.14% of users gave Montauk Renewables an outperform vote.
Summary
OPAL Fuels beats Montauk Renewables on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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