Range Resources (RRC) Competitors

Range Resources (NYSE:RRC) and EQT (NYSE:EQT) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation and media sentiment.

Is RRC or EQT a better dividend stock?

Range Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. EQT pays an annual dividend of $0.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Range Resources pays out 16.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. EQT pays out 75.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do analysts prefer RRC or EQT?

Range Resources presently has a consensus target price of $35.06, suggesting a potential upside of 3.87%. EQT has a consensus target price of $46.11, suggesting a potential upside of 6.42%. Given EQT's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe EQT is more favorable than Range Resources.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Range Resources	3 Sell rating(s)	12 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.10
EQT	0 Sell rating(s)	8 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.56

Is RRC or EQT more profitable?

Range Resources has a net margin of 17.63% compared to EQT's net margin of 5.52%. Range Resources' return on equity of 13.69% beat EQT's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Range Resources	17.63%	13.69%	7.21%
EQT	5.52%	3.74%	2.12%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer RRC or EQT?

Range Resources received 211 more outperform votes than EQT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.58% of users gave EQT an outperform vote while only 59.27% of users gave Range Resources an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Range Resources	Outperform Votes 1026 59.27%	Underperform Votes 705 40.73%
EQT	Outperform Votes 815 67.58%	Underperform Votes 391 32.42%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of RRC or EQT?

98.9% of Range Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of EQT shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Range Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of EQT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, RRC or EQT?

EQT has higher revenue and earnings than Range Resources. Range Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EQT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Range Resources	$2.33B	3.50	$871.14M	$1.98	17.05
EQT	$4.79B	5.40	$1.74B	$0.84	51.58

Does the media favor RRC or EQT?

In the previous week, EQT had 20 more articles in the media than Range Resources. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for EQT and 16 mentions for Range Resources. EQT's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Range Resources' score of 0.85 indicating that EQT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Range Resources	9 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
EQT	26 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more risk & volatility, RRC or EQT?

Range Resources has a beta of 1.85, meaning that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EQT has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

EQT beats Range Resources on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.