HCC vs. CEIX, BAK, BSM, FLNC, CRC, CRK, AROC, NEP, SEDG, and PAGP
Should you be buying Warrior Met Coal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Warrior Met Coal include CONSOL Energy (CEIX), Braskem (BAK), Black Stone Minerals (BSM), Fluence Energy (FLNC), California Resources (CRC), Comstock Resources (CRK), Archrock (AROC), NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG), and Plains GP (PAGP). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Warrior Met Coal (NYSE:HCC) and CONSOL Energy (NYSE:CEIX) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Warrior Met Coal has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CONSOL Energy has a beta of 1.77, suggesting that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.
92.3% of Warrior Met Coal shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of CONSOL Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Warrior Met Coal shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of CONSOL Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Warrior Met Coal received 195 more outperform votes than CONSOL Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.66% of users gave Warrior Met Coal an outperform vote while only 57.46% of users gave CONSOL Energy an outperform vote.
CONSOL Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Warrior Met Coal. CONSOL Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Warrior Met Coal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Warrior Met Coal presently has a consensus price target of $72.80, suggesting a potential upside of 12.57%. CONSOL Energy has a consensus price target of $98.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.06%. Given Warrior Met Coal's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Warrior Met Coal is more favorable than CONSOL Energy.
Warrior Met Coal has a net margin of 25.94% compared to CONSOL Energy's net margin of 21.57%. CONSOL Energy's return on equity of 39.24% beat Warrior Met Coal's return on equity.
In the previous week, CONSOL Energy had 5 more articles in the media than Warrior Met Coal. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for CONSOL Energy and 3 mentions for Warrior Met Coal. Warrior Met Coal's average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat CONSOL Energy's score of 0.36 indicating that Warrior Met Coal is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Warrior Met Coal pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. CONSOL Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Warrior Met Coal pays out 3.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CONSOL Energy pays out 6.7% 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
Warrior Met Coal and CONSOL Energy tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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