OPAL vs. MNTK, NPWR, CLB, SBOW, NGL, NBR, NESR, EFXT, GRNT, and CAPL
Should you be buying OPAL Fuels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OPAL Fuels include Montauk Renewables (MNTK), NET Power (NPWR), Core Laboratories (CLB), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), NGL Energy Partners (NGL), Nabors Industries (NBR), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), Enerflex (EFXT), Granite Ridge Resources (GRNT), and CrossAmerica Partners (CAPL). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Montauk Renewables (NASDAQ:MNTK) and OPAL Fuels (NASDAQ:OPAL) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and media sentiment.
Montauk Renewables presently has a consensus target price of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 110.53%. OPAL Fuels has a consensus target price of $9.29, indicating a potential upside of 100.12%. Given OPAL Fuels' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Montauk Renewables is more favorable than OPAL Fuels.
Montauk Renewables has a beta of -0.49, indicating that its stock price is 149% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OPAL Fuels has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
OPAL Fuels received 2 more outperform votes than Montauk Renewables when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.43% of users gave OPAL Fuels an outperform vote while only 36.11% of users gave Montauk Renewables an outperform vote.
OPAL Fuels has higher revenue and earnings than Montauk Renewables. OPAL Fuels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Montauk Renewables, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
OPAL Fuels has a net margin of 10.61% compared to OPAL Fuels' net margin of 8.55%. OPAL Fuels' return on equity of 6.32% beat Montauk Renewables' return on equity.
16.4% of Montauk Renewables shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.2% of OPAL Fuels shares are held by institutional investors. 54.2% of Montauk Renewables shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 84.8% of OPAL Fuels shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Montauk Renewables and Montauk Renewables both had 2 articles in the media. Montauk Renewables' average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat OPAL Fuels' score of 0.35 indicating that OPAL Fuels is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
OPAL Fuels beats Montauk Renewables on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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