CAPL vs. WKC, GRNT, BORR, SXC, NESR, SBR, PUMP, CLB, CSIQ, and OPAL
Should you be buying CrossAmerica Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CrossAmerica Partners include World Kinect (WKC), Granite Ridge Resources (GRNT), Borr Drilling (BORR), SunCoke Energy (SXC), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), Sabine Royalty Trust (SBR), ProPetro (PUMP), Core Laboratories (CLB), Canadian Solar (CSIQ), and OPAL Fuels (OPAL). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
CrossAmerica Partners (NYSE:CAPL) and World Kinect (NYSE:WKC) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking and institutional ownership.
World Kinect has a consensus target price of $26.75, suggesting a potential upside of 9.14%. Given World Kinect's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe World Kinect is more favorable than CrossAmerica Partners.
24.1% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of World Kinect shares are held by institutional investors. 52.0% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of World Kinect shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CrossAmerica Partners has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, World Kinect has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
World Kinect has higher revenue and earnings than CrossAmerica Partners. CrossAmerica Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than World Kinect, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CrossAmerica Partners received 343 more outperform votes than World Kinect when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.54% of users gave CrossAmerica Partners an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave World Kinect an outperform vote.
CrossAmerica Partners has a net margin of 0.93% compared to World Kinect's net margin of 0.11%. CrossAmerica Partners' return on equity of 197.82% beat World Kinect's return on equity.
CrossAmerica Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. World Kinect pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. CrossAmerica Partners pays out 200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. World Kinect pays out 81.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, CrossAmerica Partners had 5 more articles in the media than World Kinect. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for CrossAmerica Partners and 1 mentions for World Kinect. World Kinect's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat CrossAmerica Partners' score of 0.53 indicating that World Kinect is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
CrossAmerica Partners beats World Kinect on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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