BTU vs. AMR, ARCH, ARLP, NRP, NC, PAA, CHK, FTI, APA, and AR
Should you be buying Peabody Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peabody Energy include Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), Arch Resources (ARCH), Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), NACCO Industries (NC), Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), TechnipFMC (FTI), APA (APA), and Antero Resources (AR).
Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU) and Alpha Metallurgical Resources (NYSE:AMR) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Peabody Energy received 151 more outperform votes than Alpha Metallurgical Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.20% of users gave Peabody Energy an outperform vote while only 62.27% of users gave Alpha Metallurgical Resources an outperform vote.
Peabody Energy presently has a consensus price target of $28.25, suggesting a potential upside of 14.00%. Alpha Metallurgical Resources has a consensus price target of $284.50, suggesting a potential downside of 9.80%. Given Peabody Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Peabody Energy is more favorable than Alpha Metallurgical Resources.
Peabody Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Alpha Metallurgical Resources. Peabody Energy 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.
In the previous week, Alpha Metallurgical Resources had 1 more articles in the media than Peabody Energy. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Alpha Metallurgical Resources and 2 mentions for Peabody Energy. Peabody Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Alpha Metallurgical Resources' score of 0.27 indicating that Peabody Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Peabody Energy has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alpha Metallurgical Resources has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
87.4% of Peabody Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.3% of Alpha Metallurgical Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Peabody Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Alpha Metallurgical Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources has a net margin of 16.89% compared to Peabody Energy's net margin of 11.62%. Alpha Metallurgical Resources' return on equity of 36.77% beat Peabody Energy's return on equity.
Summary
Peabody Energy and Alpha Metallurgical Resources tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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