SunCoke Energy (SXC) Competitors

SunCoke Energy (NYSE:SXC) and CrossAmerica Partners (NYSE:CAPL) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.

Do analysts prefer SXC or CAPL?

SunCoke Energy presently has a consensus price target of $11.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.54%. Given SunCoke Energy's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe SunCoke Energy is more favorable than CrossAmerica Partners.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SunCoke Energy	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
CrossAmerica Partners	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SXC or CAPL?

SunCoke Energy received 63 more outperform votes than CrossAmerica Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.18% of users gave SunCoke Energy an outperform vote while only 63.54% of users gave CrossAmerica Partners an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
SunCoke Energy	Outperform Votes 408 65.18%	Underperform Votes 218 34.82%
CrossAmerica Partners	Outperform Votes 345 63.54%	Underperform Votes 198 36.46%

Does the media prefer SXC or CAPL?

In the previous week, SunCoke Energy had 18 more articles in the media than CrossAmerica Partners. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for SunCoke Energy and 2 mentions for CrossAmerica Partners. SunCoke Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat CrossAmerica Partners' score of 0.53 indicating that SunCoke Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
SunCoke Energy	8 Very Positive mention(s)	7 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
CrossAmerica Partners	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is SXC or CAPL a better dividend stock?

SunCoke Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. CrossAmerica Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. SunCoke Energy pays out 56.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CrossAmerica Partners pays out 200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in SXC or CAPL?

90.4% of SunCoke Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.1% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of SunCoke Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 52.0% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has better valuation & earnings, SXC or CAPL?

SunCoke Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CrossAmerica Partners. SunCoke Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CrossAmerica Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SunCoke Energy	$2.06B	0.42	$57.50M	$0.71	14.52
CrossAmerica Partners	$4.39B	0.19	$42.59M	$1.05	21.27

Which has more risk & volatility, SXC or CAPL?

SunCoke Energy has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CrossAmerica Partners has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is SXC or CAPL more profitable?

SunCoke Energy has a net margin of 2.97% compared to CrossAmerica Partners' net margin of 0.93%. CrossAmerica Partners' return on equity of 197.82% beat SunCoke Energy's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SunCoke Energy	2.97%	9.48%	3.69%
CrossAmerica Partners	0.93%	197.82%	3.37%

Summary

SunCoke Energy beats CrossAmerica Partners on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.