HCC vs. PAGP, LBRT, ORA, CNX, CVI, SEDG, BSM, BEPC, VIST, and WHD
Should you be buying Warrior Met Coal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Warrior Met Coal include Plains GP (PAGP), Liberty Energy (LBRT), Ormat Technologies (ORA), CNX Resources (CNX), CVR Energy (CVI), SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG), Black Stone Minerals (BSM), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Vista Energy (VIST), and Cactus (WHD). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Warrior Met Coal (NYSE:HCC) and Plains GP (NYSE:PAGP) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and risk.
Warrior Met Coal pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Plains GP pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Warrior Met Coal pays out 3.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Plains GP pays out 124.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Plains GP received 81 more outperform votes than Warrior Met Coal when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.82% of users gave Warrior Met Coal an outperform vote while only 57.58% of users gave Plains GP an outperform vote.
Warrior Met Coal currently has a consensus price target of $67.60, indicating a potential upside of 2.19%. Plains GP has a consensus price target of $19.55, indicating a potential upside of 2.84%. Given Plains GP's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Plains GP is more favorable than Warrior Met Coal.
In the previous week, Warrior Met Coal had 8 more articles in the media than Plains GP. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Warrior Met Coal and 5 mentions for Plains GP. Plains GP's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Warrior Met Coal's score of 0.12 indicating that Plains GP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Warrior Met Coal has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plains GP has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
92.3% of Warrior Met Coal shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.3% of Plains GP shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Warrior Met Coal shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.9% of Plains GP shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Warrior Met Coal has a net margin of 28.55% compared to Plains GP's net margin of 0.41%. Warrior Met Coal's return on equity of 28.99% beat Plains GP's return on equity.
Warrior Met Coal has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Plains GP. Warrior Met Coal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Plains GP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Warrior Met Coal beats Plains GP on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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