OPAL vs. MNTK, CLB, GRNT, SBOW, SXC, BORR, NBR, SPWR, NESR, and SBR
Should you be buying OPAL Fuels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OPAL Fuels include Montauk Renewables (MNTK), Core Laboratories (CLB), Granite Ridge Resources (GRNT), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), SunCoke Energy (SXC), Borr Drilling (BORR), Nabors Industries (NBR), SunPower (SPWR), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), and Sabine Royalty Trust (SBR). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Montauk Renewables (NASDAQ:MNTK) and OPAL Fuels (NASDAQ:OPAL) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
OPAL Fuels has higher revenue and earnings than Montauk Renewables. OPAL Fuels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Montauk Renewables, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Montauk Renewables and Montauk Renewables both had 2 articles in the media. OPAL Fuels' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Montauk Renewables' score of 0.57 indicating that Montauk Renewables is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Montauk Renewables has a beta of -0.4, meaning that its stock price is 140% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OPAL Fuels has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
OPAL Fuels received 2 more outperform votes than Montauk Renewables when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.43% of users gave OPAL Fuels an outperform vote while only 35.14% of users gave Montauk Renewables an outperform vote.
Montauk Renewables currently has a consensus target price of $7.83, indicating a potential upside of 60.52%. OPAL Fuels has a consensus target price of $9.29, indicating a potential upside of 87.59%. Given Montauk Renewables' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe OPAL Fuels is more favorable than Montauk Renewables.
16.4% of Montauk Renewables shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.2% of OPAL Fuels shares are owned by institutional investors. 54.6% of Montauk Renewables shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 84.4% of OPAL Fuels 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.
Montauk Renewables has a net margin of 10.58% compared to Montauk Renewables' net margin of 9.23%. OPAL Fuels' return on equity of 8.44% beat Montauk Renewables' return on equity.
Summary
OPAL Fuels beats Montauk Renewables on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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