Breaking News
Get 45% Off 0
🌊 NVIDIA ripple effect: Track AI stocks' response to chip giant's earnings
Explore AI Stocks

SunCoke Energy Partners (SXCP) Terminal To Manage More Cargo

By Zacks Investment ResearchStock MarketsDec 14, 2017 10:05PM ET
www.investing.com/analysis/suncoke-energy-partners-sxcp-terminal-to-manage-more-cargo-200273676
SunCoke Energy Partners (SXCP) Terminal To Manage More Cargo
By Zacks Investment Research   |  Dec 14, 2017 10:05PM ET
Saved. See Saved Items.
This article has already been saved in your Saved Items
 
 
ARCH
0.00%
Add to/Remove from Watchlist
Add to Watchlist
Add Position

Position added successfully to:

Please name your holdings portfolio
 
NG
+0.35%
Add to/Remove from Watchlist
Add to Watchlist
Add Position

Position added successfully to:

Please name your holdings portfolio
 
SXC
+0.22%
Add to/Remove from Watchlist
Add to Watchlist
Add Position

Position added successfully to:

Please name your holdings portfolio
 
BTU
-1.53%
Add to/Remove from Watchlist
Add to Watchlist
Add Position

Position added successfully to:

Please name your holdings portfolio
 

SunCoke Energy Partners L.P. (NYSE:SXC) announced that it has started to offer barge unloading services at its export terminal located in Convent, LA. The Convent Marine Terminal (CMT) of the company entered in a multi-year agreement with Cooper Consolidated to provide barge unloading facility at the terminal.

Cooper Consolidated has extensive floating crane fleet and its Louisiana Mid-Stream One transload system will efficiently unload coal, petroleum coke and other materials from barges at CMT's dock. This new capability, along with its existing truck and rail offerings will enable the terminal to handle a wider variety of products going forward.

Benefits for SunCoke Energy Partners

The barge handling capacity addition will, in a way, allow SunCoke Energy Partners’ terminal to provide a more flexible range of transport options to new and existing customers at the terminal. The terminal is going to offer services for transloading both bulk materials and liquids.

The partnership is working to increase earnings from its Coal Logistics segment by $5 million to $10 million in next couple of years. The addition of new material handling capacity in its export terminal will help it achieve its new earnings target.

Looking Forward

Per a release from U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. coal exports will touch 89 million short tons in 2017 reflecting a 48% increase from 2016 levels. This in a way will ensure new business for the coal export terminals.

A major portion of the partnership’s earnings comes from its Domestic Coke segment. Thanks to the contribution from new customers at CMT, total revenues from Coal Logistics segment in third quarter 2017 improved to 40.1% year over year to $20.6 million.

The latest ship loading system along with the two existing shiploading system will allow the export terminal to provide cost effective solution to its customers and help the partnership to earn more revenues from its Coal Logistics segment.

Coal Staging a Comeback

Coal was practically ruled out as an important energy source, with natural gas and alternate energy source gaining more popularity due to stringent emission regulations.

However, the coal friendly moves from the new administration have helped the coal producers. In fact, couple of coal operators like Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE:ARCH) and Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU) have successfully completed their financial restructuring and are trading again.

Price Movement

SunCoke Energy Partners’ stock has returned 2.1% in the last three months, underperforming the Zacks Coal industry’s gain of 6.2%.



Zacks Rank & Stock to Consider

SunCoke Energy Partners’ currently has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). A better-ranked stock in the same industry is SunCoke Energy Inc. (NYSE:SXC) , sporting a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.

SunCoke Energy reported positive earnings surprises in three of the last four quarters resulting in an average positive surprise of 113.52%.The Zacks Consensus Estimate of loss for 2017 has narrowed to 16 cents from 34 cents in the last 60 days.

Investor Alert: Breakthroughs Pending

A medical advance is now at the flashpoint between theory and realization. Billions of dollars in research have poured into it. Companies are already generating substantial revenue, and even more wondrous products are in the pipeline.

Cures for a variety of deadly diseases are in sight, and so are big potential profits for early investors. Zacks names 5 stocks to buy now.

Click here to see them >>



Peabody Energy Corporation (BTU): Free Stock Analysis Report

SunCoke Energy, Inc. (SXC): Free Stock Analysis Report

SunCoke Energy Partners, L.P. (SXCP): Free Stock Analysis Report

Arch Coal Inc. (ARCH): Free Stock Analysis Report

Original post

Zacks Investment Research

SunCoke Energy Partners (SXCP) Terminal To Manage More Cargo
 

Related Articles

SunCoke Energy Partners (SXCP) Terminal To Manage More Cargo

Add a Comment

Comment Guidelines

We encourage you to use comments to engage with other users, share your perspective and ask questions of authors and each other. However, in order to maintain the high level of discourse we’ve all come to value and expect, please keep the following criteria in mind:  

  •            Enrich the conversation, don’t trash it.

  •           Stay focused and on track. Only post material that’s relevant to the topic being discussed. 

  •           Be respectful. Even negative opinions can be framed positively and diplomatically. Avoid profanity, slander or personal attacks directed at an author or another user. Racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination will not be tolerated.

  • Use standard writing style. Include punctuation and upper and lower cases. Comments that are written in all caps and contain excessive use of symbols will be removed.
  • NOTE: Spam and/or promotional messages and comments containing links will be removed. Phone numbers, email addresses, links to personal or business websites, Skype/Telegram/WhatsApp etc. addresses (including links to groups) will also be removed; self-promotional material or business-related solicitations or PR (ie, contact me for signals/advice etc.), and/or any other comment that contains personal contact specifcs or advertising will be removed as well. In addition, any of the above-mentioned violations may result in suspension of your account.
  • Doxxing. We do not allow any sharing of private or personal contact or other information about any individual or organization. This will result in immediate suspension of the commentor and his or her account.
  • Don’t monopolize the conversation. We appreciate passion and conviction, but we also strongly believe in giving everyone a chance to air their point of view. Therefore, in addition to civil interaction, we expect commenters to offer their opinions succinctly and thoughtfully, but not so repeatedly that others are annoyed or offended. If we receive complaints about individuals who take over a thread or forum, we reserve the right to ban them from the site, without recourse.
  • Only English comments will be allowed.
  • Any comment you publish, together with your investing.com profile, will be public on investing.com and may be indexed and available through third party search engines, such as Google.

Perpetrators of spam or abuse will be deleted from the site and prohibited from future registration at Investing.com’s discretion.

Write your thoughts here
 
Are you sure you want to delete this chart?
 
Post
Post also to:
 
Replace the attached chart with a new chart ?
1000
Your ability to comment is currently suspended due to negative user reports. Your status will be reviewed by our moderators.
Please wait a minute before you try to comment again.
Thanks for your comment. Please note that all comments are pending until approved by our moderators. It may therefore take some time before it appears on our website.
 
Are you sure you want to delete this chart?
 
Post
 
Replace the attached chart with a new chart ?
1000
Your ability to comment is currently suspended due to negative user reports. Your status will be reviewed by our moderators.
Please wait a minute before you try to comment again.
Add Chart to Comment
Confirm Block

Are you sure you want to block %USER_NAME%?

By doing so, you and %USER_NAME% will not be able to see any of each other's Investing.com's posts.

%USER_NAME% was successfully added to your Block List

Since you’ve just unblocked this person, you must wait 48 hours before renewing the block.

Report this comment

I feel that this comment is:

Comment flagged

Thank You!

Your report has been sent to our moderators for review
Continue with Apple
Continue with Google
or
Sign up with Email