SunCoke Energy Partners Is Our Top Strong Buy

Our leader is SunCoke Energy Partners L.P. (SXCP).

SunCoke Energy Partners L.P. manufactures metallurgical coke used in the blast furnace production of steel. SunCoke Energy Partners, L.P. is based in Lisle, Illinois. The Company also provides coal handling and/or mixing services at its Coal Logistics terminals. The Company’s segments include Domestic Coke, Coal Logistics, and Corporate and Other. Its Domestic Coke segment consists of the Haverhill Coke Company LLC, Middletown Coke Company, LLC and Gateway Energy and Coke Company, LLC coke making and heat recovery operations in Franklin Furnace, Ohio; Middletown, Ohio, and Granite City, Illinois, respectively. The Coal Logistics segment consists of its coal handling and mixing service operations in East Chicago, Indiana; Ceredo, West Virginia; Belle, West Virginia; Catlettsburg, Kentucky, and Convent, Louisiana. The Company’s Coal Logistics business provides its services to steel, coke (including some of its domestic coke making facilities), electric utility and coal mining customers.

Recommendation: We continues our STRONG BUY recommendation on SunCoke Energy Partners for 2016-10-24. Based on the information we have gathered and our resulting research, we feel that SunCoke Energy Partners has the probability to OUTPERFORM average market performance for the next year. The company exhibits ATTRACTIVE P/E Ratio and Momentum.

 

ValuEngine Forecast

 

Target
Price*

Expected
Return

1-Month

17.01 1.57%

3-Month

17.15 2.38%

6-Month

17.02 1.64%

1-Year

19.93 19.00%

2-Year

14.71 -12.16%

3-Year

10.75 -35.85%

 

Valuation & Rankings

Valuation

29.32% undervalued

Valuation Rank

86

1-M Forecast Return

1.57%

1-M Forecast Return Rank

100

12-M Return

42.43%

Momentum Rank

88

Sharpe Ratio

-0.16

Sharpe Ratio Rank

35

5-Y Avg Annual Return

-7.41%

5-Y Avg Annual Rtn Rank

34

Volatility

45.84%

Volatility Rank

39

Expected EPS Growth

16.25%

EPS Growth Rank

52

Market Cap (billions)

0.36

Size Rank

52

Trailing P/E Ratio

8.38

Trailing P/E Rank

95

Forward P/E Ratio

7.20

Forward P/E Ratio Rank

93

PEG Ratio

0.52

PEG Ratio Rank

59

Price/Sales

0.47

Price/Sales Rank

84

Market/Book

0.73

Market/Book Rank

86

Beta

1.53

Beta Rank

20

Alpha

0.13

Alpha Rank

76