Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, coal producer CONSOL Energy
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at CONSOL's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
CONSOL facts
| Headquarters (founded) | Canonsburg, Pa. (1991) |
| Market Cap | $6.9 billion |
| Industry | Coal and consumable fuels |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $5.6 billion |
| Management | Chairman/CEO J. Brett Harvey CFO William Lyons |
| Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 16.2% |
| Cash/Debt | $200.2 million / $3.2 billion |
| Dividend Yield | 1.6% |
| Competitors |
Alpha Natural Resources Arch Coal Peabody Energy |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 8% of the 689 members who have rated CONSOL believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those Fools, All-Star Chemdawg, succinctly summed up the CONSOL bear case for our community: "[E]nergy is due for a correction ... inventories are high and demand is lagging especially for coal. [I]t is almost not economically recoverable at these prices ... and I expect them to fall further since [natural gas] pricing is even lower than coal."
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