Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. BTU scored 13.9, UROY scored 23.0 — UROY leads.
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BTU
Peabody Energy Corporation
Thermal Coal · Quality-Growth
13.9
$25.13 · $3.1B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
9.1
UROY leads
UROY
Uranium Royalty Corp.
Uranium · Quality-Growth
23
$4.18 · $1.6B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
Strongest balance sheetBTU0.13
Highest qualityUROY51 / 100
Largest discount to fair valueUROY-8%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
BTU
stronger →← stronger
UROY
31
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
51
14
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
10
6
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
25
UROY is stronger on 2 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
BTU
UROY
-$178mF
FCF
$208mC
-8.9%D
Rev
—
0.13A
D/E
0.56B
0.8xA
P/S
—
—
P/E
11.0xB+
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
BTU
UROY
—
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
8% below
—
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~-4%/yr
—
1-yr DCF upside
+22%
—
5-yr DCF upside
+9%
—
10-yr DCF upside
-5%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
BTU
No notable signals flagged.
UROY
Why this score
Diluting shareholders
Short track record
The companies
BTUPeabody Energy Corporation
Thermal Coal · $25.13 · beta 0.32
Why now
Thermal Coal · market cap $3.1b. Down 39% from 52-week high of $41.14 — deep drawdown territory. Revenue -9% — in contraction; any catalyst that reverses this triggers re-rating. 6 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $31.58 (implying +26% upside).
Moat
Turnaround / out-of-favor name — GAAP-unprofitable for now, so the durability case is forward-looking: it rests on a recovery (margin normalization, a cyclical upturn or restructuring) or an un-monetized asset (IP / network effects / first-mover position) rather than on current reported results.
Risk
Free cash flow is negative (-$178m) — capital raises or debt issuance likely required; dilution / leverage risk. Revenue contracting -9% — the operational turn is not yet visible in the top line. Currently unprofitable (margin -4.6%) — path to GAAP profitability is the core thesis risk.
UROYUranium Royalty Corp.
Uranium · $4.18 · beta 1.58
Why now
Uranium · market cap $1.6b. Down 24% from 52-week high of $5.52 — deep drawdown territory. 3 sell-side analysts rate this a Strong Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $4.19 (implying +0% upside).
Moat
Net margin 26% sits well above the S&P median (~11%) — suggests structural pricing advantage or cost discipline competitors can't quickly close. Free cash flow runs well ahead of reported net income, mostly because of cash released from working capital ($167m, chiefly inventory sold down) — a release that doesn't repeat every year the way earnings can.
Risk
Beta 1.58 implies above-market volatility — position-size to the drawdowns this name will produce in a market correction, not to its bull-case return.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
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Where BTU and UROY diverge
On the headline score the gap is 9.1 points in favor of UROY. They get there differently, though — each leads on a different pillar, so the better pick depends on which you weight.
ValueBTU 6.1 · UROY 25.4UROY +19.3
QualityBTU 31.4 · UROY 50.6UROY +19.2
GrowthBTU 14.1 · UROY 9.5BTU +4.6
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is UROY or BTU the better stock?
UROY scores higher: UROY 23.0, BTU 13.9 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do UROY and BTU differ most?
The widest gap is value, where UROY leads by 19 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. Neither name sweeps: they trade the lead across the three pillars, so the comparison is a trade-off rather than one being better on every measure.
How are UROY and BTU scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.