ARLP vs. ARCH, BTU, NRP, KOS, TGS, NEP, CVI, NS, CRK, and BE
Should you be buying Alliance Resource Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliance Resource Partners include Arch Resources (ARCH), Peabody Energy (BTU), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), Kosmos Energy (KOS), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), CVR Energy (CVI), NuStar Energy (NS), Comstock Resources (CRK), and Bloom Energy (BE). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Alliance Resource Partners (NASDAQ:ARLP) and Arch Resources (NYSE:ARCH) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation and profitability.
18.1% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.1% of Arch Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.8% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Arch Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alliance Resource Partners has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arch Resources has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alliance Resource Partners presently has a consensus price target of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.55%. Arch Resources has a consensus price target of $177.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.75%. Given Arch Resources' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Arch Resources is more favorable than Alliance Resource Partners.
In the previous week, Arch Resources had 2 more articles in the media than Alliance Resource Partners. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Arch Resources and 1 mentions for Alliance Resource Partners. Arch Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Alliance Resource Partners' score of 1.00 indicating that Arch Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alliance Resource Partners has a net margin of 23.36% compared to Arch Resources' net margin of 10.89%. Alliance Resource Partners' return on equity of 31.68% beat Arch Resources' return on equity.
Alliance Resource Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Arch Resources. Alliance Resource Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arch Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Arch Resources received 135 more outperform votes than Alliance Resource Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.74% of users gave Alliance Resource Partners an outperform vote while only 61.68% of users gave Arch Resources an outperform vote.
Alliance Resource Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.3%. Arch Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Alliance Resource Partners pays out 61.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Arch Resources pays out 5.9% 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.
Summary
Alliance Resource Partners and Arch Resources tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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