CHK vs. AR, XEC, PE, CVE, FANG, DVN, CTRA, WDS, EQT, and MRO
Should you be buying Chesapeake Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chesapeake Energy include Antero Resources (AR), Cimarex Energy (XEC), Parsley Energy (PE), Cenovus Energy (CVE), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Devon Energy (DVN), Coterra Energy (CTRA), Woodside Energy Group (WDS), EQT (EQT), and Marathon Oil (MRO). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Antero Resources (NYSE:AR) and Chesapeake Energy (NASDAQ:CHK) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Antero Resources has a beta of 3.27, meaning that its share price is 227% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chesapeake Energy has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chesapeake Energy has a net margin of 16.42% compared to Chesapeake Energy's net margin of 1.50%. Antero Resources' return on equity of 4.87% beat Chesapeake Energy's return on equity.
Antero Resources currently has a consensus target price of $33.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.14%. Chesapeake Energy has a consensus target price of $106.67, indicating a potential upside of 19.70%. Given Antero Resources' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chesapeake Energy is more favorable than Antero Resources.
Chesapeake Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Antero Resources. Chesapeake Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Antero Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
83.0% of Antero Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.9% of Chesapeake Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Antero Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Chesapeake Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Chesapeake Energy had 10 more articles in the media than Antero Resources. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Chesapeake Energy and 8 mentions for Antero Resources. Chesapeake Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Antero Resources' score of 0.77 indicating that Antero Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Antero Resources received 692 more outperform votes than Chesapeake Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.79% of users gave Antero Resources an outperform vote while only 56.60% of users gave Chesapeake Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Chesapeake Energy beats Antero Resources on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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