Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP) Competitors

CONSOL Energy (NYSE:CEIX) and Alliance Resource Partners (NASDAQ:ARLP) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CEIX or ARLP?

Alliance Resource Partners received 241 more outperform votes than CONSOL Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.93% of users gave Alliance Resource Partners an outperform vote while only 57.93% of users gave CONSOL Energy an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CONSOL Energy	Outperform Votes 157 57.93%	Underperform Votes 114 42.07%
Alliance Resource Partners	Outperform Votes 398 64.93%	Underperform Votes 215 35.07%

Do analysts rate CEIX or ARLP?

CONSOL Energy currently has a consensus target price of $139.00, suggesting a potential upside of 31.32%. Alliance Resource Partners has a consensus target price of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.16%. Given CONSOL Energy's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe CONSOL Energy is more favorable than Alliance Resource Partners.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CONSOL Energy	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Alliance Resource Partners	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in CEIX or ARLP?

86.5% of CONSOL Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.1% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of CONSOL Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has higher earnings and valuation, CEIX or ARLP?

CONSOL Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alliance Resource Partners. Alliance Resource Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CONSOL Energy, 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
CONSOL Energy	$2.21B	1.41	$655.89M	$13.62	7.77
Alliance Resource Partners	$2.48B	1.36	$630.12M	$3.52	7.51

Is CEIX or ARLP more profitable?

Alliance Resource Partners has a net margin of 18.52% compared to CONSOL Energy's net margin of 18.02%. CONSOL Energy's return on equity of 28.96% beat Alliance Resource Partners' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CONSOL Energy	18.02%	28.96%	15.16%
Alliance Resource Partners	18.52%	23.74%	15.31%

Does the media prefer CEIX or ARLP?

In the previous week, Alliance Resource Partners had 2 more articles in the media than CONSOL Energy. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Alliance Resource Partners and 4 mentions for CONSOL Energy. Alliance Resource Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat CONSOL Energy's score of 0.14 indicating that Alliance Resource Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CONSOL Energy	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Alliance Resource Partners	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is CEIX or ARLP a better dividend stock?

CONSOL Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Alliance Resource Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.6%. CONSOL Energy pays out 7.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alliance Resource Partners pays out 79.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Which has more volatility and risk, CEIX or ARLP?

CONSOL Energy has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alliance Resource Partners has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

CONSOL Energy beats Alliance Resource Partners on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.