Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. HCC scored 44.2, UROY scored 23.0 — HCC leads.
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HCC
Warrior Met Coal, Inc.
Coking Coal · Quality-Growth
44.2
$93.07 · $4.9B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
21.2
HCC 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 sheetHCC0.10
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)
HCC
stronger →← stronger
UROY
49
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
51
50
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
10
35
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
25
HCC is stronger on 2 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
HCC
UROY
-$95mF
FCF
$208mC
+37.5%A
Rev
—
0.10A-
D/E
0.56B
2.9xB
P/S
—
1.36B
PEG
—
—
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
HCC
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
HCC
Why this score
Cyclical growth
UROY
Why this score
Diluting shareholders
Short track record
The companies
HCCWarrior Met Coal, Inc.
Coking Coal · $93.07 · beta 0.74
Why now
Coking Coal · market cap $4.9b. 16% off the 52-week high of $111.42. Revenue growing +37% — in hypergrowth territory. 6 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $110.00 (implying +18% upside).
Moat
Net margin 13% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent.
Risk
Free cash flow is negative (-$95m) — capital raises or debt issuance likely required; dilution / leverage 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 HCC and UROY diverge
On the headline score the gap is 21.2 points in favor of HCC. The widest single difference is Growth, where HCC leads by 40.5 points.
GrowthHCC 50.0 · UROY 9.5HCC +40.5
ValueHCC 35.3 · UROY 25.4HCC +9.9
QualityHCC 48.8 · UROY 50.6level
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 HCC or UROY the better stock?
HCC scores higher: HCC 44.2, UROY 23.0 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 HCC and UROY differ most?
The widest gap is growth, where HCC leads by 41 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. HCC also leads value, while quality is effectively level between them.
How are HCC and UROY 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.