CVR Energy (NYSE:CVI – Get Free Report) and World Kinect (NYSE:WKC – Get Free Report) are both energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
98.9% of CVR Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of World Kinect shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of CVR Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of World Kinect shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Risk and Volatility
CVR Energy has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, World Kinect has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| CVR Energy | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.20 |
| World Kinect | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1.80 |
CVR Energy currently has a consensus target price of $22.25, indicating a potential downside of 30.30%. World Kinect has a consensus target price of $29.40, indicating a potential upside of 15.84%. Given World Kinect’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe World Kinect is more favorable than CVR Energy.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares CVR Energy and World Kinect”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| CVR Energy | $7.61 billion | 0.42 | $7.00 million | ($3.32) | -9.62 |
| World Kinect | $42.17 billion | 0.03 | $67.40 million | ($7.63) | -3.33 |
World Kinect has higher revenue and earnings than CVR Energy. CVR Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than World Kinect, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares CVR Energy and World Kinect’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| CVR Energy | -4.63% | -18.11% | -3.52% |
| World Kinect | -1.11% | 7.07% | 2.02% |
Summary
World Kinect beats CVR Energy on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About CVR Energy
CVR Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the petroleum refining and marketing, and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing activities in the United States. It operates in two segments, Petroleum and Nitrogen Fertilizer. The Petroleum segment refines and supplies gasoline, crude oil, distillate, diesel fuel, and other refined products. This segment also owns and operates a coking medium-sour crude oil refinery in southeast Kansas; and a crude oil refinery in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, as well as supporting logistics assets. This segment primarily serves retailers, railroads, farm cooperatives, and other refiners/marketers. The Nitrogen Fertilizer segment owns and operates a nitrogen fertilizer plant in North America that utilizes a pet coke gasification process to produce nitrogen fertilizer products; and a nitrogen fertilizer facility in East Dubuque, Illinois that produces nitrogen fertilizers in the form of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN), nitric acid, and liquid and granulated urea. This segment primarily markets UAN products to agricultural customers; and ammonia products to agricultural and industrial customers. The company was founded in 1906 and is based in Sugar Land, Texas. CVR Energy, Inc. is a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises L.P.
About World Kinect
World Kinect Corporation operates as an energy management company in the United States, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. This segment also offers fuel management, price risk management, ground handling, dispatch services, and trip planning services, such as flight planning and scheduling, weather reports and overflight permits; payment and processing services; and operates a web-based marketplace platform. The Land segment offers fuel, lubricants, heating oil, and related products and services to retail petroleum operators, as well as industrial, commercial, residential and government customers. This segment also provides sustainability solutions, such as renewable fuel products, carbon management, and renewable energy solutions; distributes fuel under long-term contracts to branded and unbranded distributors, convenience stores, and retail fuel outlets operated by third parties; distributes heating oil and unbranded fuel; and transportation logistics. The Marine segment markets fuel, lubricants, and related products and services to international container, dry bulk and tanker fleets, commercial cruise lines, yachts and time charter operators, offshore rig owners and operators, the U.S. and foreign governments, and other fuel suppliers. This segment also offers marine fuel-related services include management services to procurement of fuel, price risk management, cost control, quality control, and claims management services; and engages in the fueling of vessels, and transportation and delivery of fuel and fuel-related products. The company was formerly known as World Fuel Services Corporation and changed its name to World Kinect Corporation in June 2023. World Kinect Corporation was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
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