SPH vs. CLMT, PFHC, SHLS, DMLP, NRP, CSIQ, ACDC, JKS, PUMP, and GLP
Should you be buying Suburban Propane Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Suburban Propane Partners include Calumet Specialty Products Partners (CLMT), ProFrac (PFHC), Shoals Technologies Group (SHLS), Dorchester Minerals (DMLP), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), Canadian Solar (CSIQ), ProFrac (ACDC), JinkoSolar (JKS), ProPetro (PUMP), and Global Partners (GLP). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Calumet Specialty Products Partners (NASDAQ:CLMT) and Suburban Propane Partners (NYSE:SPH) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and earnings.
Calumet Specialty Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.4%. Suburban Propane Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Calumet Specialty Products Partners pays out -3,914.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Suburban Propane Partners pays out 76.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Calumet Specialty Products Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Calumet Specialty Products Partners has a beta of 1.75, indicating that its stock price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Suburban Propane Partners has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Suburban Propane Partners has a net margin of 8.02% compared to Suburban Propane Partners' net margin of -0.10%. Calumet Specialty Products Partners' return on equity of 18.91% beat Suburban Propane Partners' return on equity.
Suburban Propane Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Calumet Specialty Products Partners. Calumet Specialty Products Partners 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.
In the previous week, Calumet Specialty Products Partners had 22 more articles in the media than Suburban Propane Partners. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Calumet Specialty Products Partners and 3 mentions for Suburban Propane Partners. Suburban Propane Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Calumet Specialty Products Partners' score of 0.18 indicating that Calumet Specialty Products Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Calumet Specialty Products Partners received 2 more outperform votes than Suburban Propane Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.28% of users gave Suburban Propane Partners an outperform vote while only 50.16% of users gave Calumet Specialty Products Partners an outperform vote.
Calumet Specialty Products Partners presently has a consensus target price of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 33.25%. Suburban Propane Partners has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential downside of 10.81%. Given Suburban Propane Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Calumet Specialty Products Partners is more favorable than Suburban Propane Partners.
34.4% of Calumet Specialty Products Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.9% of Suburban Propane Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Calumet Specialty Products Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Suburban Propane Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Calumet Specialty Products Partners beats Suburban Propane Partners on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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