CRGY vs. AESI, VTLE, VET, TALO, PARR, KRP, KOS, DMLP, CRK, and SBOW
Should you be buying Crescent Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crescent Energy include Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI), Vital Energy (VTLE), Vermilion Energy (VET), Talos Energy (TALO), Par Pacific (PARR), Kimbell Royalty Partners (KRP), Kosmos Energy (KOS), Dorchester Minerals (DMLP), Comstock Resources (CRK), and SilverBow Resources (SBOW). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Crescent Energy (NYSE:CRGY) and Atlas Energy Solutions (NYSE:AESI) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Crescent Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Atlas Energy Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Crescent Energy pays out 37.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Atlas Energy Solutions pays out 40.8% 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. Crescent Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Atlas Energy Solutions has a net margin of 17.17% compared to Crescent Energy's net margin of 2.84%. Atlas Energy Solutions' return on equity of 47.40% beat Crescent Energy's return on equity.
52.1% of Crescent Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.6% of Atlas Energy Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of Crescent Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.3% of Atlas Energy Solutions 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.
Atlas Energy Solutions received 2 more outperform votes than Crescent Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 89.47% of users gave Atlas Energy Solutions an outperform vote while only 48.39% of users gave Crescent Energy an outperform vote.
Crescent Energy presently has a consensus target price of $16.38, suggesting a potential upside of 30.37%. Atlas Energy Solutions has a consensus target price of $25.17, suggesting a potential upside of 9.35%. Given Crescent Energy's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Crescent Energy is more favorable than Atlas Energy Solutions.
Crescent Energy has a beta of 2.29, indicating that its stock price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atlas Energy Solutions has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Atlas Energy Solutions has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Crescent Energy. Crescent Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atlas Energy Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Atlas Energy Solutions had 2 more articles in the media than Crescent Energy. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Atlas Energy Solutions and 11 mentions for Crescent Energy. Crescent Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Atlas Energy Solutions' score of 0.95 indicating that Crescent Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Atlas Energy Solutions beats Crescent Energy on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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