I just read the following paper, where an answer can be found:
Youngsik Huh, Seungsang Oh, An upper bound on stick number of knots, J. Knot Theory Ram. 20 (2011), no. 5, 741–747, doi: 10.1142/S0218216511008966, arXiv: 1512.03592.
There it is shown that the trefoil is the only knot whose stick number equals twice its crossing number. This is a consequence of the authors' main result (Thm. 1.1), which states that any nontrivial knot $K$ satisfies $s(K)\leq \frac{3}{2}(c(K)+1)$ (thus improving Negami's upper bound).