SXC vs. CAPL, GRNT, SBR, BORR, OPAL, PUMP, NESR, NPWR, SBOW, and NBR
Should you be buying SunCoke Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SunCoke Energy include CrossAmerica Partners (CAPL), Granite Ridge Resources (GRNT), Sabine Royalty Trust (SBR), Borr Drilling (BORR), OPAL Fuels (OPAL), ProPetro (PUMP), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), NET Power (NPWR), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), and Nabors Industries (NBR). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
CrossAmerica Partners (NYSE:CAPL) and SunCoke Energy (NYSE:SXC) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
SunCoke Energy received 63 more outperform votes than CrossAmerica Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.18% of users gave SunCoke Energy an outperform vote while only 63.54% of users gave CrossAmerica Partners an outperform vote.
24.1% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.5% of SunCoke Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 52.0% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of SunCoke Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
SunCoke Energy has a consensus target price of $11.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.90%. Given CrossAmerica Partners' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SunCoke Energy is more favorable than CrossAmerica Partners.
SunCoke Energy has a net margin of 2.97% compared to SunCoke Energy's net margin of 0.93%. SunCoke Energy's return on equity of 197.82% beat CrossAmerica Partners' return on equity.
SunCoke Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CrossAmerica Partners. SunCoke Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CrossAmerica Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CrossAmerica Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.5%. SunCoke Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. 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. SunCoke Energy pays out 56.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SunCoke Energy has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
In the previous week, SunCoke Energy had 19 more articles in the media than CrossAmerica Partners. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for SunCoke Energy and 2 mentions for CrossAmerica Partners. CrossAmerica Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat SunCoke Energy's score of 0.53 indicating that SunCoke Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CrossAmerica Partners has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SunCoke Energy has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
SunCoke Energy beats CrossAmerica Partners on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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