NXE vs. AMR, HUN, FUL, ASH, BCPC, AVNT, SMG, CC, ALTM, and CRS
Should you be buying NexGen Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NexGen Energy include Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), Huntsman (HUN), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Ashland (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), Avient (AVNT), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), Chemours (CC), Arcadium Lithium (ALTM), and Carpenter Technology (CRS). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources (NYSE:AMR) and NexGen Energy (NYSE:NXE) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources has higher revenue and earnings than NexGen Energy. NexGen Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alpha Metallurgical Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources presently has a consensus target price of $284.50, indicating a potential downside of 0.90%. NexGen Energy has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 52.78%. Given Alpha Metallurgical Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NexGen Energy is more favorable than Alpha Metallurgical Resources.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NexGen Energy has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alpha Metallurgical Resources had 12 more articles in the media than NexGen Energy. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Alpha Metallurgical Resources and 20 mentions for NexGen Energy. Alpha Metallurgical Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat NexGen Energy's score of 0.23 indicating that NexGen Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
84.3% of Alpha Metallurgical Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.4% of NexGen Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 15.0% of Alpha Metallurgical Resources shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of NexGen Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources received 168 more outperform votes than NexGen Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave NexGen Energy an outperform vote while only 62.27% of users gave Alpha Metallurgical Resources an outperform vote.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources has a net margin of 16.89% compared to Alpha Metallurgical Resources' net margin of 0.00%. NexGen Energy's return on equity of 36.77% beat Alpha Metallurgical Resources' return on equity.
Summary
Alpha Metallurgical Resources beats NexGen Energy on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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