ARCH vs. BTU, ARLP, NRP, NS, RUN, NEP, KOS, USAC, BE, and FLNC
Should you be buying Arch Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arch Resources include Peabody Energy (BTU), Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), NuStar Energy (NS), Sunrun (RUN), NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), Kosmos Energy (KOS), USA Compression Partners (USAC), Bloom Energy (BE), and Fluence Energy (FLNC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Arch Resources (NYSE:ARCH) and Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and risk.
In the previous week, Arch Resources had 5 more articles in the media than Peabody Energy. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Arch Resources and 18 mentions for Peabody Energy. Peabody Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Arch Resources' score of 0.20 indicating that Peabody Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Peabody Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Arch Resources. Peabody Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arch Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Arch Resources has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peabody Energy has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Arch Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Peabody Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Arch Resources pays out 4.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Peabody Energy pays out 6.0% 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.
88.1% of Arch Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Peabody Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Arch Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Peabody Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Arch Resources received 208 more outperform votes than Peabody Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.19% of users gave Peabody Energy an outperform vote while only 61.64% of users gave Arch Resources an outperform vote.
Peabody Energy has a net margin of 15.36% compared to Arch Resources' net margin of 14.75%. Arch Resources' return on equity of 32.20% beat Peabody Energy's return on equity.
Arch Resources currently has a consensus price target of $177.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.82%. Peabody Energy has a consensus price target of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.53%. Given Peabody Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Peabody Energy is more favorable than Arch Resources.
Summary
Arch Resources and Peabody Energy tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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