NRP vs. AMR, ARLP, BTU, ARCH, NC, ORA, FLNC, PTEN, SSL, and NOG
Should you be buying Natural Resource Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Natural Resource Partners include Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Peabody Energy (BTU), Arch Resources (ARCH), NACCO Industries (NC), Ormat Technologies (ORA), Fluence Energy (FLNC), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Sasol (SSL), and Northern Oil and Gas (NOG).
Alpha Metallurgical Resources (NYSE:AMR) and Natural Resource Partners (NYSE:NRP) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources presently has a consensus price target of $284.50, indicating a potential downside of 9.80%. Given Natural Resource Partners' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alpha Metallurgical Resources is more favorable than Natural Resource Partners.
Natural Resource Partners received 203 more outperform votes than Alpha Metallurgical Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.90% of users gave Natural Resource Partners an outperform vote while only 62.27% of users gave Alpha Metallurgical Resources an outperform vote.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Natural Resource Partners has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Natural Resource Partners has a net margin of 62.93% compared to Natural Resource Partners' net margin of 16.89%. Alpha Metallurgical Resources' return on equity of 43.30% beat Natural Resource Partners' return on equity.
84.3% of Alpha Metallurgical Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Natural Resource Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 15.0% of Alpha Metallurgical Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 35.3% of Natural Resource Partners shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, Alpha Metallurgical Resources had 4 more articles in the media than Natural Resource Partners. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Alpha Metallurgical Resources and 0 mentions for Natural Resource Partners. Natural Resource Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Alpha Metallurgical Resources' score of 0.00 indicating that Alpha Metallurgical Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Natural Resource Partners. Natural Resource Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alpha Metallurgical Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Alpha Metallurgical Resources beats Natural Resource Partners on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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