GPRE vs. DK, CLNE, REX, GEVO, PSX, MPC, VLO, PBF, CVI, and WLKP
Should you be buying Green Plains stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Green Plains include Delek US (DK), Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE), REX American Resources (REX), Gevo (GEVO), Phillips 66 (PSX), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Valero Energy (VLO), PBF Energy (PBF), CVR Energy (CVI), and Westlake Chemical Partners (WLKP).
Green Plains vs.
Green Plains (NASDAQ:GPRE) and Delek US (NYSE:DK) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
Delek US has higher revenue and earnings than Green Plains. Green Plains is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Delek US, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Green Plains has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Delek US has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Green Plains pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Delek US pays an annual dividend of $1.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Green Plains pays out -35.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Delek US pays out -21.0% 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. Green Plains is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Green Plains had 10 more articles in the media than Delek US. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Green Plains and 6 mentions for Delek US. Delek US's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Green Plains' score of 0.05 indicating that Delek US is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Green Plains has a net margin of -0.79% compared to Delek US's net margin of -2.27%. Green Plains' return on equity of -4.81% beat Delek US's return on equity.
Delek US received 225 more outperform votes than Green Plains when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.64% of users gave Green Plains an outperform vote while only 60.58% of users gave Delek US an outperform vote.
Green Plains currently has a consensus target price of $22.56, indicating a potential upside of 248.72%. Delek US has a consensus target price of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.55%. Given Green Plains' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Green Plains is more favorable than Delek US.
97.0% of Delek US shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Green Plains shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Delek US shares are owned 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.
Summary
Green Plains beats Delek US on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GPRE) was last updated on 2/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff