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AREC vs. ARLP, BTU, AMR, NRP, METC, METCB, NMG, VOXR, PLL, and NB

Should you be buying American Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Resources include Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Peabody Energy (BTU), Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), Ramaco Resources (METC), Ramaco Resources (METCB), Nouveau Monde Graphite (NMG), Vox Royalty (VOXR), Piedmont Lithium (PLL), and NioCorp Developments (NB).

American Resources vs. Its Competitors

Alliance Resource Partners (NASDAQ:ARLP) and American Resources (NASDAQ:AREC) are both coal companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.

Alliance Resource Partners presently has a consensus price target of $29.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.11%. American Resources has a consensus price target of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 241.88%. Given American Resources' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe American Resources is more favorable than Alliance Resource Partners.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Alliance Resource Partners
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
American Resources
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Alliance Resource Partners has higher revenue and earnings than American Resources. American Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alliance Resource Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Alliance Resource Partners$2.45B1.43$360.86M$2.1212.89
American Resources$321.14K293.33-$40.11M-$0.49-2.39

Alliance Resource Partners has a net margin of 11.84% compared to American Resources' net margin of -12,881.75%. Alliance Resource Partners' return on equity of 15.77% beat American Resources' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alliance Resource Partners11.84% 15.77% 10.00%
American Resources -12,881.75%N/A -20.29%

Alliance Resource Partners has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Resources has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.

18.1% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.3% of American Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 16.8% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of American Resources shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Alliance Resource Partners had 7 more articles in the media than American Resources. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Alliance Resource Partners and 3 mentions for American Resources. Alliance Resource Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat American Resources' score of 0.47 indicating that Alliance Resource Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Alliance Resource Partners
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
American Resources
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Alliance Resource Partners beats American Resources on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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AREC vs. The Competition

MetricAmerican ResourcesMINING IndustryMaterials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$94.20M$6.06B$3.30B$9.11B
Dividend YieldN/A2.02%5.14%4.01%
P/E Ratio-2.3926.7192.7520.26
Price / Sales293.33376.8331,167,046,552,241,600.00166.10
Price / CashN/A26.9323.8957.67
Price / Book-1.107.876.065.49
Net Income-$40.11M$278.68M$147.90M$250.45M
7 Day Performance35.89%4.69%2.30%4.79%
1 Month Performance34.25%10.08%6.05%9.59%
1 Year Performance50.68%26.24%26.47%16.41%

American Resources Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AREC
American Resources
2.1638 of 5 stars
$1.17
+5.4%
$4.00
+241.9%
+50.7%$94.20M$321.14K-2.3910News Coverage
ARLP
Alliance Resource Partners
2.6859 of 5 stars
$26.72
+0.5%
$29.00
+8.5%
+9.3%$3.43B$2.45B12.603,653News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Revision
BTU
Peabody Energy
4.4792 of 5 stars
$14.50
flat
$23.50
+62.1%
-33.5%$1.76B$4.24B5.415,600Positive News
AMR
Alpha Metallurgical Resources
3.0718 of 5 stars
$112.41
-3.6%
$145.50
+29.4%
-61.1%$1.47B$2.96B55.654,040News Coverage
NRP
Natural Resource Partners
1.055 of 5 stars
$98.40
+0.9%
N/A+1.2%$1.28B$268.01M9.4550
METC
Ramaco Resources
2.5285 of 5 stars
$12.69
+6.3%
$13.67
+7.7%
+12.5%$694.14M$666.29M-158.63725News Coverage
High Trading Volume
METCB
Ramaco Resources
1.331 of 5 stars
$8.47
+2.3%
N/A+6.4%$463.31M$666.29M-94.10725News Coverage
High Trading Volume
NMG
Nouveau Monde Graphite
3.1417 of 5 stars
$1.65
-0.6%
$2.58
+56.1%
+2.2%$185.77MN/A-5.16122
VOXR
Vox Royalty
0.8397 of 5 stars
$3.40
+4.0%
N/A+17.8%$172.58M$11.05M-85.003High Trading Volume
PLL
Piedmont Lithium
1.9613 of 5 stars
$6.17
-5.4%
$12.75
+106.6%
-39.6%$135.41M$106.47M-2.2040News Coverage
NB
NioCorp Developments
1.8216 of 5 stars
$2.39
-0.8%
$4.00
+67.4%
+58.8%$133.15MN/A-3.068News Coverage
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Analyst Forecast
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