MNTK vs. OPAL, SOC, VTS, DEC, AMPS, DRQ, NOVA, EFXT, NR, and CAPL
Should you be buying Montauk Renewables stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Montauk Renewables include OPAL Fuels (OPAL), Sable Offshore (SOC), Vitesse Energy (VTS), Diversified Energy (DEC), Altus Power (AMPS), Dril-Quip (DRQ), Sunnova Energy International (NOVA), Enerflex (EFXT), Newpark Resources (NR), and CrossAmerica Partners (CAPL). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
OPAL Fuels (NASDAQ:OPAL) and Montauk Renewables (NASDAQ:MNTK) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
12.2% of OPAL Fuels shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.4% of Montauk Renewables shares are held by institutional investors. 84.4% of OPAL Fuels shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 54.6% of Montauk Renewables shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
OPAL Fuels presently has a consensus price target of $9.29, suggesting a potential upside of 87.59%. Montauk Renewables has a consensus price target of $7.83, suggesting a potential upside of 60.52%. Given Montauk Renewables' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe OPAL Fuels is more favorable than Montauk Renewables.
OPAL Fuels received 2 more outperform votes than Montauk Renewables when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.43% of users gave OPAL Fuels an outperform vote while only 35.14% of users gave Montauk Renewables an outperform vote.
OPAL Fuels has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Montauk Renewables has a beta of -0.4, suggesting that its share price is 140% less volatile than the S&P 500.
OPAL Fuels has higher revenue and earnings than Montauk Renewables. OPAL Fuels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Montauk Renewables, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, OPAL Fuels and OPAL Fuels both had 2 articles in the media. OPAL Fuels' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Montauk Renewables' score of 0.57 indicating that Montauk Renewables is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Montauk Renewables has a net margin of 10.58% compared to Montauk Renewables' net margin of 9.23%. OPAL Fuels' return on equity of 8.44% beat Montauk Renewables' return on equity.
Summary
OPAL Fuels beats Montauk Renewables on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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