NRP vs. ARLP, ARCH, BTU, PFHC, JKS, AMRC, SPH, CLMT, ENVX, and ACDC
Should you be buying Natural Resource Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Natural Resource Partners include Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Arch Resources (ARCH), Peabody Energy (BTU), ProFrac (PFHC), JinkoSolar (JKS), Ameresco (AMRC), Suburban Propane Partners (SPH), Calumet Specialty Products Partners (CLMT), Enovix (ENVX), and ProFrac (ACDC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Natural Resource Partners (NYSE:NRP) and Alliance Resource Partners (NASDAQ:ARLP) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.
31.8% of Natural Resource Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.1% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 35.3% of Natural Resource Partners shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Alliance Resource Partners shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alliance Resource Partners has a consensus price target of $28.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.81%. Given Alliance Resource Partners' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alliance Resource Partners is more favorable than Natural Resource Partners.
Natural Resource Partners has a net margin of 59.68% compared to Alliance Resource Partners' net margin of 24.50%. Natural Resource Partners' return on equity of 44.05% beat Alliance Resource Partners' return on equity.
In the previous week, Alliance Resource Partners had 6 more articles in the media than Natural Resource Partners. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Alliance Resource Partners and 2 mentions for Natural Resource Partners. Natural Resource Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Alliance Resource Partners' score of -0.16 indicating that Natural Resource Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alliance Resource Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Natural Resource Partners. Alliance Resource Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Natural Resource Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alliance Resource Partners received 18 more outperform votes than Natural Resource Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.63% of users gave Alliance Resource Partners an outperform vote while only 62.90% of users gave Natural Resource Partners an outperform vote.
Natural Resource Partners has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alliance Resource Partners has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Natural Resource Partners pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Alliance Resource Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%. Natural Resource Partners pays out 22.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alliance Resource Partners pays out 58.2% 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.
Summary
Natural Resource Partners beats Alliance Resource Partners on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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