DK vs. CVI, PBF, CLMT, SUN, HPK, EE, PARR, NEXT, VET, and ENLT
Should you be buying Delek US stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Delek US include CVR Energy (CVI), PBF Energy (PBF), Calumet Specialty Products Partners (CLMT), Sunoco (SUN), HighPeak Energy (HPK), Excelerate Energy (EE), Par Pacific (PARR), NextDecade (NEXT), Vermilion Energy (VET), and Enlight Renewable Energy (ENLT). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
CVR Energy (NYSE:CVI) and Delek US (NYSE:DK) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
CVR Energy has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Delek US has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Delek US received 389 more outperform votes than CVR Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.34% of users gave Delek US an outperform vote while only 55.95% of users gave CVR Energy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, CVR Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Delek US. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for CVR Energy and 12 mentions for Delek US. Delek US's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat CVR Energy's score of -0.05 indicating that CVR Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CVR Energy has a net margin of 7.44% compared to CVR Energy's net margin of 0.12%. Delek US's return on equity of 40.14% beat CVR Energy's return on equity.
98.9% of CVR Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Delek US shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of CVR Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Delek US 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.
CVR Energy currently has a consensus target price of $31.33, suggesting a potential upside of 6.25%. Delek US has a consensus target price of $28.56, suggesting a potential upside of 6.12%. Given Delek US's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe CVR Energy is more favorable than Delek US.
CVR Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Delek US. CVR Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Delek US, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CVR Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Delek US pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. CVR Energy pays out 30.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Delek US pays out 445.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CVR Energy has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Delek US has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. CVR Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
CVR Energy beats Delek US on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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