BTU vs. ARLP, ARCH, NRP, CRK, NS, NEP, AROC, CVI, BE, and USAC
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), Comstock Resources (CRK), NuStar Energy (NS), NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), Archrock (AROC), CVR Energy (CVI), Bloom Energy (BE), and USA Compression Partners (USAC). 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 superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
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 32.06% beat Peabody Energy's return on equity.
Peabody Energy presently has a consensus price target of $28.25, suggesting a potential upside of 27.31%. Alliance Resource Partners has a consensus price target of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.46%. Given Peabody Energy's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Peabody Energy is more favorable than Alliance Resource Partners.
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.
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.
87.4% of Peabody Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.1% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Peabody Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are owned by company 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.
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.
In the previous week, Peabody Energy had 17 more articles in the media than Alliance Resource Partners. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Peabody Energy and 11 mentions for Alliance Resource Partners. Alliance Resource Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Peabody Energy's score of 0.52 indicating that Alliance Resource Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 12.5%. 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.
Summary
Alliance Resource Partners beats Peabody Energy on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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