CAPL vs. WKC, SXC, SBR, GRNT, PUMP, NESR, BORR, OPAL, REX, and NPWR
Should you be buying CrossAmerica Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CrossAmerica Partners include World Kinect (WKC), SunCoke Energy (SXC), Sabine Royalty Trust (SBR), Granite Ridge Resources (GRNT), ProPetro (PUMP), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), Borr Drilling (BORR), OPAL Fuels (OPAL), REX American Resources (REX), and NET Power (NPWR). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
World Kinect (NYSE:WKC) and CrossAmerica Partners (NYSE:CAPL) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
97.1% of World Kinect shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.1% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of World Kinect shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 52.0% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are owned by 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.
World Kinect has higher revenue and earnings than CrossAmerica Partners. CrossAmerica Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than World Kinect, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
World Kinect presently has a consensus target price of $26.75, suggesting a potential upside of 11.78%. Given CrossAmerica Partners' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe World Kinect is more favorable than CrossAmerica Partners.
CrossAmerica Partners has a net margin of 0.93% compared to CrossAmerica Partners' net margin of 0.12%. World Kinect's return on equity of 197.82% beat CrossAmerica Partners' return on equity.
World Kinect has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CrossAmerica Partners has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
World Kinect pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. CrossAmerica Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. World Kinect pays out 73.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CrossAmerica Partners pays out 200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. World Kinect has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
CrossAmerica Partners received 343 more outperform votes than World Kinect when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.54% of users gave CrossAmerica Partners an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave World Kinect an outperform vote.
In the previous week, World Kinect had 5 more articles in the media than CrossAmerica Partners. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for World Kinect and 2 mentions for CrossAmerica Partners. World Kinect's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat CrossAmerica Partners' score of 0.06 indicating that CrossAmerica Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
CrossAmerica Partners beats World Kinect on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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