BTU vs. ARLP, ARCH, NRP, TGS, KOS, CVI, NS, RUN, SEDG, and BE
Should you be buying Peabody Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peabody Energy include Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Arch Resources (ARCH), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), Kosmos Energy (KOS), CVR Energy (CVI), NuStar Energy (NS), Sunrun (RUN), SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG), and Bloom Energy (BE). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Alliance Resource Partners (NASDAQ:ARLP) and Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU) 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 analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.
In the previous week, Peabody Energy had 4 more articles in the media than Alliance Resource Partners. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Peabody Energy and 2 mentions for Alliance Resource Partners. Alliance Resource Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Peabody Energy's score of 1.00 indicating that Peabody Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
18.1% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Peabody Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 16.8% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Peabody Energy shares are held by company 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.
Alliance Resource Partners has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peabody Energy has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alliance Resource Partners has a net margin of 23.36% compared to Alliance Resource Partners' net margin of 11.62%. Peabody Energy's return on equity of 31.68% beat Alliance Resource Partners' return on equity.
Alliance Resource Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.3%. Peabody Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Alliance Resource Partners pays out 61.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Peabody Energy pays out 8.4% 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. Alliance Resource Partners has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Alliance Resource Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Peabody Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Alliance Resource Partners. Alliance Resource Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Peabody Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alliance Resource Partners currently has a consensus price target of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.55%. Peabody Energy has a consensus price target of $28.25, suggesting a potential upside of 25.39%. Given Alliance Resource Partners' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Peabody Energy is more favorable than Alliance Resource Partners.
Alliance Resource Partners received 72 more outperform votes than Peabody Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.74% of users gave Alliance Resource Partners an outperform vote while only 64.20% of users gave Peabody Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Alliance Resource Partners beats Peabody Energy on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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