ARCH vs. BTU, ARLP, NRP, NS, FLNC, KOS, CRK, NEP, AROC, and USAC
Should you be buying Arch Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arch Resources include Peabody Energy (BTU), Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), NuStar Energy (NS), Fluence Energy (FLNC), Kosmos Energy (KOS), Comstock Resources (CRK), NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), Archrock (AROC), and USA Compression Partners (USAC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU) and Arch Resources (NYSE:ARCH) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Peabody Energy has a net margin of 15.36% compared to Peabody Energy's net margin of 10.89%. Peabody Energy's return on equity of 22.32% beat Arch Resources' return on equity.
Peabody Energy presently has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.85%. Arch Resources has a consensus target price of $177.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.65%. Given Arch Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Peabody Energy is more favorable than Arch Resources.
87.4% of Peabody Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.1% of Arch Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Peabody Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Arch Resources shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Peabody Energy has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arch Resources has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Arch Resources had 21 more articles in the media than Peabody Energy. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Arch Resources and 3 mentions for Peabody Energy. Arch Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Peabody Energy's score of 0.43 indicating that Peabody Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Arch Resources received 209 more outperform votes than Peabody Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.19% of users gave Peabody Energy an outperform vote while only 61.68% of users gave Arch Resources an outperform vote.
Peabody Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Arch Resources. Peabody Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arch Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Peabody Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Arch Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Peabody Energy pays out 6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Arch Resources pays out 5.9% 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.
Summary
Peabody Energy and Arch Resources tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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