NRP vs. ARLP, CEIX, BTU, AMR, METCB, METC, AREC, ARCH, NC, and ORA
Should you be buying Natural Resource Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Natural Resource Partners include Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), CONSOL Energy (CEIX), Peabody Energy (BTU), Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), Ramaco Resources (METCB), Ramaco Resources (METC), American Resources (AREC), Arch Resources (ARCH), NACCO Industries (NC), and Ormat Technologies (ORA).
Alliance Resource Partners (NASDAQ:ARLP) and Natural Resource Partners (NYSE:NRP) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Alliance Resource Partners has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Natural Resource Partners has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alliance Resource Partners received 20 more outperform votes than Natural Resource Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.86% of users gave Alliance Resource Partners an outperform vote while only 63.03% of users gave Natural Resource Partners an outperform vote.
Alliance Resource Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Natural Resource Partners. Alliance Resource Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Natural Resource Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alliance Resource Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%. Natural Resource Partners pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Alliance Resource Partners pays out 61.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Natural Resource Partners pays out 22.2% 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. Natural Resource Partners has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Alliance Resource Partners and Alliance Resource Partners both had 1 articles in the media. Natural Resource Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Alliance Resource Partners' score of 0.93 indicating that Natural Resource Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alliance Resource Partners presently has a consensus target price of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.78%. Given Alliance Resource Partners' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Alliance Resource Partners is more favorable than Natural Resource Partners.
18.1% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Natural Resource Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.8% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 35.3% of Natural Resource Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Natural Resource Partners has a net margin of 70.55% compared to Alliance Resource Partners' net margin of 21.04%. Natural Resource Partners' return on equity of 44.97% beat Alliance Resource Partners' return on equity.
Summary
Natural Resource Partners beats Alliance Resource Partners on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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