PBF vs. CVI, DK, SUN, YPF, AM, MUR, VNOM, ENLC, DTM, and CHRD
Should you be buying PBF Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PBF Energy include CVR Energy (CVI), Delek US (DK), Sunoco (SUN), YPF Sociedad Anónima (YPF), Antero Midstream (AM), Murphy Oil (MUR), Viper Energy (VNOM), EnLink Midstream (ENLC), DT Midstream (DTM), and Chord Energy (CHRD). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
CVR Energy (NYSE:CVI) and PBF Energy (NYSE:PBF) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.
PBF Energy received 224 more outperform votes than CVR Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.76% of users gave PBF Energy an outperform vote while only 55.85% of users gave CVR Energy an outperform vote.
CVR Energy currently has a consensus target price of $31.33, indicating a potential downside of 5.65%. PBF Energy has a consensus target price of $57.55, indicating a potential downside of 0.35%. Given CVR Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PBF Energy is more favorable than CVR Energy.
CVR Energy has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PBF Energy has a beta of 1.73, indicating that its share price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CVR Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. PBF Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. CVR Energy pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PBF Energy pays out 6.1% 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. CVR Energy has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and PBF Energy has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
98.9% of CVR Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.3% of PBF Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of CVR Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of PBF Energy shares are owned by 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.
PBF Energy has higher revenue and earnings than CVR Energy. PBF Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CVR Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CVR Energy has a net margin of 8.32% compared to CVR Energy's net margin of 5.59%. PBF Energy's return on equity of 55.17% beat CVR Energy's return on equity.
In the previous week, PBF Energy had 3 more articles in the media than CVR Energy. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for PBF Energy and 4 mentions for CVR Energy. CVR Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat PBF Energy's score of 0.40 indicating that PBF Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
PBF Energy beats CVR Energy on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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