California Resources (CRC) Competitors

California Resources (NYSE:CRC) and YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.

Do analysts prefer CRC or YPF?

California Resources currently has a consensus target price of $67.25, suggesting a potential upside of 62.47%. YPF Sociedad Anónima has a consensus target price of $39.16, suggesting a potential upside of 9.08%. Given California Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe California Resources is more favorable than YPF Sociedad Anónima.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
California Resources	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.92
YPF Sociedad Anónima	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.43

Which has better earnings and valuation, CRC or YPF?

California Resources has higher earnings, but lower revenue than YPF Sociedad Anónima. California Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than YPF Sociedad Anónima, 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
California Resources	$2.64B	1.43	$564M	$6.35	6.52
YPF Sociedad Anónima	$18.48B	0.76	-$1.31B	$1.98	18.13

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CRC or YPF?

YPF Sociedad Anónima received 89 more outperform votes than California Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.68% of users gave YPF Sociedad Anónima an outperform vote while only 61.36% of users gave California Resources an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
California Resources	Outperform Votes 378 61.36%	Underperform Votes 238 38.64%
YPF Sociedad Anónima	Outperform Votes 467 67.68%	Underperform Votes 223 32.32%

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in CRC or YPF?

97.8% of California Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.1% of YPF Sociedad Anónima shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of California Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is CRC or YPF a better dividend stock?

California Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. YPF Sociedad Anónima pays an annual dividend of $0.1380 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. California Resources pays out 24.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. YPF Sociedad Anónima pays out 7.0% 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.

Is CRC or YPF more profitable?

California Resources has a net margin of 17.43% compared to YPF Sociedad Anónima's net margin of 4.15%. YPF Sociedad Anónima's return on equity of 32.76% beat California Resources' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
California Resources	17.43%	12.16%	6.15%
YPF Sociedad Anónima	4.15%	32.76%	12.67%

Which has more risk & volatility, CRC or YPF?

California Resources has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, YPF Sociedad Anónima has a beta of 1.88, meaning that its stock price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer CRC or YPF?

In the previous week, California Resources had 8 more articles in the media than YPF Sociedad Anónima. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for California Resources and 7 mentions for YPF Sociedad Anónima. California Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat YPF Sociedad Anónima's score of 0.58 indicating that California Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
California Resources	5 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
YPF Sociedad Anónima	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

California Resources beats YPF Sociedad Anónima on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.