CAPL vs. WKC, AE, BANL, RUN, NEP, BTU, ARLP, CRC, ARCH, and AROC
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), Sunrun (RUN), NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), Peabody Energy (BTU), Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), California Resources (CRC), Arch Resources (ARCH), and Archrock (AROC).
CrossAmerica Partners (NYSE:CAPL) and World Kinect (NYSE:WKC) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
World Kinect has a consensus target price of $26.75, suggesting a potential upside of 4.13%. Given World Kinect's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe World Kinect is more favorable than CrossAmerica Partners.
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.
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.
24.1% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of World Kinect shares are held by institutional investors. 52.0% of CrossAmerica Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of World Kinect shares are held 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.
CrossAmerica Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.4%. World Kinect pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. 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 pays out 73.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
CrossAmerica Partners has a net margin of 0.56% compared to World Kinect's net margin of 0.12%. CrossAmerica Partners' return on equity of 701.44% beat World Kinect's return on equity.
CrossAmerica Partners has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, World Kinect has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, World Kinect had 6 more articles in the media than CrossAmerica Partners. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for World Kinect and 1 mentions for CrossAmerica Partners. World Kinect's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat CrossAmerica Partners' score of 1.05 indicating that World Kinect is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
CrossAmerica Partners beats World Kinect on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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