CVI vs. DK, PBF, CLMT, SUN, YPF, BTU, ARLP, TGS, KOS, and ARCH
Should you be buying CVR Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CVR Energy include Delek US (DK), PBF Energy (PBF), Calumet Specialty Products Partners (CLMT), Sunoco (SUN), YPF Sociedad Anónima (YPF), Peabody Energy (BTU), Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), Kosmos Energy (KOS), and Arch Resources (ARCH). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Delek US (NYSE:DK) and CVR Energy (NYSE:CVI) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.
Delek US has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CVR Energy has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CVR Energy has a net margin of 7.44% compared to CVR Energy's net margin of -0.48%. Delek US's return on equity of 40.14% beat CVR Energy's return on equity.
97.0% of Delek US shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of CVR Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Delek US shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of CVR Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Delek US received 389 more outperform votes than CVR Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.09% of users gave Delek US an outperform vote while only 55.82% of users gave CVR Energy an outperform vote.
Delek US pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. CVR Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Delek US pays out -80.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CVR Energy pays out 30.7% 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. Delek US has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and CVR Energy has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
CVR Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Delek US. Delek US is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CVR Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Delek US had 10 more articles in the media than CVR Energy. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Delek US and 3 mentions for CVR Energy. Delek US's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat CVR Energy's score of -0.19 indicating that CVR Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Delek US currently has a consensus price target of $28.50, indicating a potential upside of 7.87%. CVR Energy has a consensus price target of $31.25, indicating a potential upside of 8.28%. Given Delek US's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CVR Energy is more favorable than Delek US.
Summary
CVR Energy beats Delek US on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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