ALTM vs. AROC, MTX, TROX, RTLR, KRO, ENLC, LXU, VHI, SMLP, and LXFR
Should you be buying Altus Midstream stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Altus Midstream include Archrock (AROC), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Tronox (TROX), Rattler Midstream (RTLR), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), LSB Industries (LXU), Valhi (VHI), Summit Midstream Partners (SMLP), and Luxfer (LXFR).
Altus Midstream (NASDAQ:ALTM) and Archrock (NYSE:AROC) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and risk.
Archrock received 365 more outperform votes than Altus Midstream when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.05% of users gave Archrock an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Altus Midstream an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Archrock had 26 more articles in the media than Altus Midstream. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Archrock and 1 mentions for Altus Midstream. Archrock's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Altus Midstream's score of 0.00 indicating that Archrock is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Altus Midstream currently has a consensus price target of $6.11, indicating a potential upside of 78.73%. Archrock has a consensus price target of $20.33, indicating a potential downside of 6.86%. Given Altus Midstream's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Altus Midstream is more favorable than Archrock.
Altus Midstream has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Archrock has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
27.0% of Altus Midstream shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Archrock shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Altus Midstream shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Archrock shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Altus Midstream has a net margin of 25.94% compared to Archrock's net margin of 12.54%. Archrock's return on equity of 15.30% beat Altus Midstream's return on equity.
Altus Midstream has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Archrock. Altus Midstream is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Archrock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Archrock beats Altus Midstream on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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