World Kinect (NYSE:WKC – Get Free Report) and CVR Energy (NYSE:CVI – Get Free Report) are both energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for World Kinect and CVR Energy, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| World Kinect | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.00 |
| CVR Energy | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.17 |
World Kinect presently has a consensus target price of $28.75, indicating a potential upside of 10.17%. CVR Energy has a consensus target price of $26.75, indicating a potential downside of 27.71%. Given World Kinect’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe World Kinect is more favorable than CVR Energy.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| World Kinect | -1.11% | 7.07% | 2.02% |
| CVR Energy | -4.63% | -18.11% | -3.52% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
97.1% of World Kinect shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of CVR Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of World Kinect shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of CVR Energy shares are owned by company 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.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares World Kinect and CVR Energy”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| World Kinect | $42.17 billion | 0.03 | $67.40 million | ($7.63) | -3.42 |
| CVR Energy | $7.61 billion | 0.49 | $7.00 million | ($3.32) | -11.15 |
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.
Risk and Volatility
World Kinect has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CVR Energy has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
World Kinect beats CVR Energy on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
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.
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