CLNE vs. DK, GPRE, REX, GEVO, UGI, SRE, MPC, PSX, VLO, and PBF
Should you be buying Clean Energy Fuels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clean Energy Fuels include Delek US (DK), Green Plains (GPRE), REX American Resources (REX), Gevo (GEVO), UGI (UGI), Sempra (SRE), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Phillips 66 (PSX), Valero Energy (VLO), and PBF Energy (PBF).
Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ:CLNE) and Delek US (NYSE:DK) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Delek US received 241 more outperform votes than Clean Energy Fuels when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.09% of users gave Delek US an outperform vote while only 53.64% of users gave Clean Energy Fuels an outperform vote.
Clean Energy Fuels currently has a consensus target price of $5.60, suggesting a potential upside of 78.91%. Delek US has a consensus target price of $28.50, suggesting a potential upside of 11.94%. Given Clean Energy Fuels' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Clean Energy Fuels is more favorable than Delek US.
49.9% of Clean Energy Fuels shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Delek US shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Clean Energy Fuels shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Delek US 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.
Delek US has higher revenue and earnings than Clean Energy Fuels. Delek US is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clean Energy Fuels, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Delek US has a net margin of -0.48% compared to Clean Energy Fuels' net margin of -19.98%. Delek US's return on equity of 7.37% beat Clean Energy Fuels' return on equity.
In the previous week, Delek US had 5 more articles in the media than Clean Energy Fuels. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Delek US and 4 mentions for Clean Energy Fuels. Clean Energy Fuels' average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Delek US's score of -0.28 indicating that Clean Energy Fuels is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clean Energy Fuels has a beta of 2.08, indicating that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Delek US has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Clean Energy Fuels beats Delek US on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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