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 better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and risk.
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 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.
In the previous week, Chesapeake Energy had 13 more articles in the media than Antero Resources. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Chesapeake Energy and 4 mentions for Antero Resources. Antero Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Chesapeake Energy's score of 0.70 indicating that Chesapeake Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Antero Resources presently has a consensus target price of $33.00, indicating a potential downside of 6.01%. Chesapeake Energy has a consensus target price of $106.67, indicating a potential upside of 18.64%. Given Antero Resources' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chesapeake Energy is more favorable than Antero Resources.
Antero Resources has a beta of 3.27, suggesting that its stock price is 227% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chesapeake Energy has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Chesapeake Energy beats Antero Resources on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CHK and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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