CVR Energy (CVI) Competitors

CVR Energy (NYSE:CVI) and PBF Energy (NYSE:PBF) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.

Do insiders & institutionals believe in CVI or PBF?

98.9% of CVR Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.3% of PBF Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of CVR Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of PBF Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts prefer CVI or PBF?

CVR Energy presently has a consensus target price of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.29%. PBF Energy has a consensus target price of $27.36, suggesting a potential upside of 42.15%. Given PBF Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PBF Energy 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
PBF Energy	6 Sell rating(s)	8 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.57

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CVI or PBF?

PBF Energy received 226 more outperform votes than CVR Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.53% of users gave PBF Energy an outperform vote while only 53.39% of users gave CVR Energy an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CVR Energy	Outperform Votes 236 53.39%	Underperform Votes 206 46.61%
PBF Energy	Outperform Votes 462 55.53%	Underperform Votes 370 44.47%

Which has more volatility and risk, CVI or PBF?

CVR Energy has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PBF Energy has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is CVI or PBF a better dividend stock?

CVR Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. PBF Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. CVR Energy pays out 2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PBF Energy pays out -23.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, CVI or PBF?

CVR Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PBF Energy. PBF Energy 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	$7.61B	0.26	$769M	$0.06	332.50
PBF Energy	$33.12B	0.07	-$533.80M	-$4.71	-4.09

Does the media refer more to CVI or PBF?

In the previous week, CVR Energy had 1 more articles in the media than PBF Energy. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for CVR Energy and 11 mentions for PBF Energy. CVR Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat PBF Energy's score of 0.85 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	6 Very Positive mention(s)	4 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
PBF Energy	6 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is CVI or PBF more profitable?

CVR Energy has a net margin of 0.09% compared to PBF Energy's net margin of -1.61%. CVR Energy's return on equity of -5.12% beat PBF Energy's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CVR Energy	0.09%	-5.12%	-1.21%
PBF Energy	-1.61%	-7.40%	-3.40%

Summary

CVR Energy beats PBF Energy on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.