WKC vs. CAPL, RES, JKS, KRP, SHLS, GEL, CLMT, SPH, GLP, and DMLP
Should you be buying World Kinect stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of World Kinect include CrossAmerica Partners (CAPL), RPC (RES), JinkoSolar (JKS), Kimbell Royalty Partners (KRP), Shoals Technologies Group (SHLS), Genesis Energy (GEL), Calumet Specialty Products Partners (CLMT), Suburban Propane Partners (SPH), Global Partners (GLP), and Dorchester Minerals (DMLP). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
CrossAmerica Partners (NYSE:CAPL) and World Kinect (NYSE:WKC) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation and dividends.
World Kinect has higher revenue and earnings than CrossAmerica Partners. World Kinect is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CrossAmerica Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CrossAmerica Partners has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, World Kinect has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
World Kinect has a consensus target price of $26.75, indicating a potential upside of 8.43%. Given CrossAmerica Partners' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe World Kinect is more favorable than CrossAmerica Partners.
In the previous week, World Kinect had 2 more articles in the media than CrossAmerica Partners. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for World Kinect and 5 mentions for CrossAmerica Partners. CrossAmerica Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat World Kinect's score of -0.91 indicating that World Kinect is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
24.1% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of World Kinect shares are held by institutional investors. 52.0% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of World Kinect shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CrossAmerica Partners has a net margin of 0.56% compared to CrossAmerica Partners' net margin of 0.12%. World Kinect's return on equity of 229.28% beat CrossAmerica Partners' return on equity.
CrossAmerica Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.4%. World Kinect pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. CrossAmerica Partners pays out 344.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. World Kinect pays out 73.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. World Kinect has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
CrossAmerica Partners received 344 more outperform votes than World Kinect when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.60% of users gave CrossAmerica Partners an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave World Kinect an outperform vote.
Summary
CrossAmerica Partners and World Kinect tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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