CRGY vs. RRC, SWN, HESM, MTDR, CHRD, VNOM, MUR, SM, CPG, and VRN
Should you be buying Crescent Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crescent Energy include Range Resources (RRC), Southwestern Energy (SWN), Hess Midstream (HESM), Matador Resources (MTDR), Chord Energy (CHRD), Viper Energy (VNOM), Murphy Oil (MUR), SM Energy (SM), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), and Veren (VRN). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Crescent Energy (NYSE:CRGY) and Range Resources (NYSE:RRC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and profitability.
Range Resources has a net margin of 17.00% compared to Crescent Energy's net margin of -0.67%. Range Resources' return on equity of 13.30% beat Crescent Energy's return on equity.
Crescent Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Range Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Crescent Energy pays out -240.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Range Resources pays out 16.2% 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. Crescent Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
52.1% of Crescent Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of Range Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of Crescent Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Range Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Crescent Energy has a beta of 2.29, suggesting that its stock price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Range Resources has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Range Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Crescent Energy. Crescent Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Range Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crescent Energy presently has a consensus target price of $16.63, indicating a potential upside of 31.94%. Range Resources has a consensus target price of $37.10, indicating a potential upside of 0.51%. Given Crescent Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Crescent Energy is more favorable than Range Resources.
Range Resources received 1004 more outperform votes than Crescent Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.89% of users gave Range Resources an outperform vote while only 48.48% of users gave Crescent Energy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Range Resources had 3 more articles in the media than Crescent Energy. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Range Resources and 4 mentions for Crescent Energy. Crescent Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Range Resources' score of 0.93 indicating that Crescent Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Range Resources beats Crescent Energy on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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