Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI) vs. Its Competitors Head to Head Comparison

Atlas Energy Solutions (NYSE:AESI) is one of 29 publicly-traded companies in the “Mining & quarrying of nonmetallic minerals, except fuels” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Atlas Energy Solutions to similar companies based on the strength of its earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Atlas Energy Solutions and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Atlas Energy Solutions	0	0	9	1	3.10
Atlas Energy Solutions Competitors	226	1042	1400	16	2.45

Atlas Energy Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $24.90, suggesting a potential upside of 39.34%. As a group, “Mining & quarrying of nonmetallic minerals, except fuels” companies have a potential upside of 25.03%. Given Atlas Energy Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Atlas Energy Solutions is more favorable than its peers.

Dividends

Atlas Energy Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. As a group, “Mining & quarrying of nonmetallic minerals, except fuels” companies pay a dividend yield of 1.1% and pay out 21.1% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

17.9% of Atlas Energy Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.0% of shares of all “Mining & quarrying of nonmetallic minerals, except fuels” companies are held by institutional investors. 82.4% of Atlas Energy Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of shares of all “Mining & quarrying of nonmetallic minerals, except fuels” companies are held 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.

Profitability

This table compares Atlas Energy Solutions and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Atlas Energy Solutions	N/A	N/A	N/A
Atlas Energy Solutions Competitors	24.37%	4.58%	5.90%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Atlas Energy Solutions and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Atlas Energy Solutions	$482.72 million	$217.01 million	N/A
Atlas Energy Solutions Competitors	$2.60 billion	$420.54 million	11.41

Atlas Energy Solutions’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Atlas Energy Solutions.

Summary

Atlas Energy Solutions beats its peers on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

About Atlas Energy Solutions

Atlas Energy Solutions Inc. provides proppant and logistics services to the oil and natural gas industry within the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.