Suburban Propane Partners (SPH) Competitors

Suburban Propane Partners (NYSE:SPH) and Rush Enterprises (NASDAQ:RUSHB) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Do analysts rate SPH or RUSHB?

Suburban Propane Partners currently has a consensus target price of $19.67, suggesting a potential downside of 0.20%. Given Suburban Propane Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Suburban Propane Partners is more favorable than Rush Enterprises.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Suburban Propane Partners	2 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.67
Rush Enterprises	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Is SPH or RUSHB a better dividend stock?

Suburban Propane Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Rush Enterprises pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Suburban Propane Partners pays out 114.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Rush Enterprises pays out 19.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Is SPH or RUSHB more profitable?

Suburban Propane Partners has a net margin of 5.59% compared to Rush Enterprises' net margin of 3.93%. Rush Enterprises' return on equity of 15.43% beat Suburban Propane Partners' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Suburban Propane Partners	5.59%	12.64%	3.22%
Rush Enterprises	3.93%	15.43%	6.78%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor SPH or RUSHB?

Suburban Propane Partners received 199 more outperform votes than Rush Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.87% of users gave Rush Enterprises an outperform vote while only 57.22% of users gave Suburban Propane Partners an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Suburban Propane Partners	Outperform Votes 309 57.22%	Underperform Votes 231 42.78%
Rush Enterprises	Outperform Votes 110 65.87%	Underperform Votes 57 34.13%

Does the media prefer SPH or RUSHB?

In the previous week, Suburban Propane Partners had 2 more articles in the media than Rush Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Suburban Propane Partners and 1 mentions for Rush Enterprises. Suburban Propane Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Rush Enterprises' score of -0.50 indicating that Suburban Propane Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Suburban Propane Partners	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Rush Enterprises	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Negative

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, SPH or RUSHB?

Rush Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than Suburban Propane Partners. Rush Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Suburban Propane Partners, 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
Suburban Propane Partners	$1.33B	0.96	$74.17M	$1.14	17.29
Rush Enterprises	$7.93B	0.55	$347.05M	$3.77	14.62

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of SPH or RUSHB?

30.9% of Suburban Propane Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.1% of Rush Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Suburban Propane Partners shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.9% of Rush Enterprises shares are held by 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.

Which has more volatility & risk, SPH or RUSHB?

Suburban Propane Partners has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rush Enterprises has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.

Summary

Suburban Propane Partners beats Rush Enterprises on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.