Warrior Met Coal (HCC) Competitors

CONSOL Energy (NYSE:CEIX) and Warrior Met Coal (NYSE:HCC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.

Is CEIX or HCC more profitable?

Warrior Met Coal has a net margin of 25.94% compared to Warrior Met Coal's net margin of 25.53%. Warrior Met Coal's return on equity of 49.80% beat CONSOL Energy's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CONSOL Energy	25.53%	49.80%	24.50%
Warrior Met Coal	25.94%	24.71%	19.29%

Does the media prefer CEIX or HCC?

In the previous week, Warrior Met Coal had 15 more articles in the media than CONSOL Energy. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Warrior Met Coal and 5 mentions for CONSOL Energy. Warrior Met Coal's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat CONSOL Energy's score of 0.73 indicating that CONSOL Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CONSOL Energy	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Warrior Met Coal	4 Very Positive mention(s)	4 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do analysts prefer CEIX or HCC?

CONSOL Energy currently has a consensus price target of $98.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.82%. Warrior Met Coal has a consensus price target of $72.80, indicating a potential upside of 9.92%. Given Warrior Met Coal's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe CONSOL Energy is more favorable than Warrior Met Coal.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CONSOL Energy	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Warrior Met Coal	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, CEIX or HCC?

CONSOL Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Warrior Met Coal. CONSOL Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Warrior Met Coal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CONSOL Energy	$2.51B	0.99	$655.89M	$19.65	4.27
Warrior Met Coal	$1.67B	2.07	$478.63M	$8.31	7.97

Is CEIX or HCC a better dividend stock?

CONSOL Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Warrior Met Coal pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. CONSOL Energy pays out 5.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Warrior Met Coal pays out 3.9% 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. CONSOL Energy has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Warrior Met Coal has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CEIX or HCC?

Warrior Met Coal received 195 more outperform votes than CONSOL Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.66% of users gave Warrior Met Coal an outperform vote while only 57.46% of users gave CONSOL Energy an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CONSOL Energy	Outperform Votes 154 57.46%	Underperform Votes 114 42.54%
Warrior Met Coal	Outperform Votes 349 62.66%	Underperform Votes 208 37.34%

Do insiders and institutionals believe in CEIX or HCC?

86.5% of CONSOL Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.3% of Warrior Met Coal shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of CONSOL Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Warrior Met Coal shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk and volatility, CEIX or HCC?

CONSOL Energy has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Warrior Met Coal has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

CONSOL Energy beats Warrior Met Coal on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.