ARQ (ARQ) & Its Peers Financial Contrast

ARQ (NASDAQ:ARQ) is one of 295 public companies in the “Chemicals” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare ARQ to similar companies based on the strength of its valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for ARQ and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ARQ	1	1	1	0	2.00
ARQ Competitors	3234	12161	14087	515	2.40

ARQ presently has a consensus target price of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 182.49%. As a group, “Chemicals” companies have a potential upside of 7.08%. Given ARQ’s higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe ARQ is more favorable than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares ARQ and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ARQ	-42.33%	-2.54%	-1.88%
ARQ Competitors	-61.48%	1.14%	-1.43%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

18.5% of ARQ shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.5% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are held by institutional investors. 20.1% of ARQ shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.9% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares ARQ and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
ARQ	$120.34 million	-$52.61 million	-1.40
ARQ Competitors	$6.37 billion	$222.31 million	-3.77

ARQ’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than ARQ. ARQ is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Risk & Volatility

ARQ has a beta of 2.08, meaning that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ARQ’s peers have a beta of 1.26, meaning that their average share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

ARQ peers beat ARQ on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

About ARQ

Arq, Inc. is a holding company. It engages in the provision of environmental and emission control equipment to the power generation industry. The company operates through the following Segments: Refined Coal and Advanced Purification Technologies. The Refined Coal segment includes the Tinuum Group, Tinuum Services, and GWN Manager. The Advanced Purification Technologies segment refers to the sale of Activated Carbon Injection and Dry Sorbent Injection equipment systems, chemical sales, consulting services, and other sales related to the reduction of emissions in the coal-fired electric generation process and the electric utility industry. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Greenwood Village, CO.