ALTM vs. AROC, TROX, MTX, ENLC, KRO, NXE, AMR, HUN, FUL, and CC
Should you be buying Altus Midstream stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Altus Midstream include Archrock (AROC), Tronox (TROX), Minerals Technologies (MTX), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), NexGen Energy (NXE), Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), Huntsman (HUN), H.B. Fuller (FUL), and Chemours (CC).
Archrock (NYSE:AROC) and Altus Midstream (NASDAQ:ALTM) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Altus Midstream has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
95.5% of Archrock shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.0% of Altus Midstream shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of Archrock shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Altus Midstream shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Archrock had 7 more articles in the media than Altus Midstream. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Archrock and 2 mentions for Altus Midstream. Altus Midstream's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Archrock's score of 0.00 indicating that Archrock is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Archrock received 364 more outperform votes than Altus Midstream when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.00% of users gave Archrock an outperform vote while only 29.63% of users gave Altus Midstream an outperform vote.
Altus Midstream has a net margin of 37.40% compared to Altus Midstream's net margin of 10.60%. Archrock's return on equity of 21.88% beat Altus Midstream's return on equity.
Archrock presently has a consensus price target of $17.67, suggesting a potential downside of 12.71%. Altus Midstream has a consensus price target of $7.06, suggesting a potential upside of 77.86%. Given Archrock's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Altus Midstream is more favorable than Archrock.
Archrock has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Altus Midstream has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Altus Midstream beats Archrock on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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