CAPL vs. WKC, AE, BANL, BTU, RUN, CVI, TGS, CEIX, SEDG, and KOS
Should you be buying CrossAmerica Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CrossAmerica Partners include World Kinect (WKC), Adams Resources & Energy (AE), CBL International (BANL), Peabody Energy (BTU), Sunrun (RUN), CVR Energy (CVI), Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS), CONSOL Energy (CEIX), SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG), and Kosmos Energy (KOS).
World Kinect (NYSE:WKC) and CrossAmerica Partners (NYSE:CAPL) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking and dividends.
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.
World Kinect pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. CrossAmerica Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.4%. World Kinect pays out 73.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
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.
World Kinect currently has a consensus target price of $26.75, suggesting a potential upside of 1.56%. Given CrossAmerica Partners' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe World Kinect is more favorable than CrossAmerica Partners.
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 701.44% beat CrossAmerica Partners' return on equity.
In the previous week, CrossAmerica Partners had 1 more articles in the media than World Kinect. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for CrossAmerica Partners and 2 mentions for World Kinect. CrossAmerica Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat World Kinect's score of 0.83 indicating that World Kinect is being referred to more favorably in the media.
97.1% of World Kinect shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.1% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of World Kinect shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 52.0% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
World Kinect has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CrossAmerica Partners has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CrossAmerica Partners beats World Kinect on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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