Green Plains (GPRE) Competitors

CVR Energy (NYSE:CVI) and Green Plains (NASDAQ:GPRE) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

Is CVI or GPRE more profitable?

CVR Energy has a net margin of 0.89% compared to Green Plains' net margin of -0.79%. CVR Energy's return on equity of 2.88% beat Green Plains' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CVR Energy	0.89%	2.88%	0.69%
Green Plains	-0.79%	-4.81%	-2.46%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of CVI or GPRE?

98.9% of CVR Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of CVR Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Green Plains shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility & risk, CVI or GPRE?

CVR Energy has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Green Plains has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CVI or GPRE?

Green Plains received 162 more outperform votes than CVR Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.78% of users gave Green Plains an outperform vote while only 53.76% of users gave CVR Energy an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CVR Energy	Outperform Votes 236 53.76%	Underperform Votes 203 46.24%
Green Plains	Outperform Votes 398 63.78%	Underperform Votes 226 36.22%

Do analysts prefer CVI or GPRE?

CVR Energy currently has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.02%. Green Plains has a consensus price target of $24.44, indicating a potential upside of 172.13%. Given Green Plains' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Green Plains is more favorable than CVR Energy.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CVR Energy	5 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.29
Green Plains	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.63

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, CVI or GPRE?

CVR Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Green Plains. Green Plains is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CVR 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
CVR Energy	$9.25B	0.21	$769M	$0.69	28.49
Green Plains	$3.30B	0.18	-$93.38M	-$0.38	-23.63

Does the media favor CVI or GPRE?

In the previous week, CVR Energy and CVR Energy both had 7 articles in the media. CVR Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Green Plains' score of 0.04 indicating that CVR Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CVR Energy	2 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Green Plains	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	3 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

CVR Energy beats Green Plains on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.