BTU vs. ARCH, ARLP, NRP, FLNC, NS, AROC, KOS, SEDG, CRK, and NEP
Should you be buying Peabody Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peabody Energy include Arch Resources (ARCH), Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), Fluence Energy (FLNC), NuStar Energy (NS), Archrock (AROC), Kosmos Energy (KOS), SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG), Comstock Resources (CRK), and NextEra Energy Partners (NEP). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Arch Resources (NYSE:ARCH) and Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
Arch Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Peabody Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Arch Resources pays out 5.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Peabody Energy pays out 6.0% 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.
Peabody Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Arch Resources. Peabody Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arch Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Arch Resources had 19 more articles in the media than Peabody Energy. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Arch Resources and 3 mentions for Peabody Energy. Arch Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Peabody Energy's score of 0.43 indicating that Peabody Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Arch Resources received 209 more outperform votes than Peabody Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.19% of users gave Peabody Energy an outperform vote while only 61.68% of users gave Arch Resources an outperform vote.
Peabody Energy has a net margin of 15.36% compared to Peabody Energy's net margin of 10.89%. Peabody Energy's return on equity of 22.32% beat Arch Resources' return on equity.
Arch Resources has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peabody Energy has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Arch Resources currently has a consensus price target of $177.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.65%. Peabody Energy has a consensus price target of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.85%. Given Arch Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Peabody Energy is more favorable than Arch Resources.
88.1% of Arch Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Peabody Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Arch Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Peabody Energy 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
Arch Resources and Peabody Energy tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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