OKE vs. ATO, SWX, UGI, NFG, NJR, CPK, NWN, CTRI, NEXT, and RGCO
Should you be buying ONEOK stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ONEOK include Atmos Energy (ATO), Southwest Gas (SWX), UGI (UGI), National Fuel Gas (NFG), New Jersey Resources (NJR), Chesapeake Utilities (CPK), Northwest Natural (NWN), Centuri (CTRI), NextDecade (NEXT), and RGC Resources (RGCO).
Atmos Energy (NYSE:ATO) and ONEOK (NYSE:OKE) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Atmos Energy had 3 more articles in the media than ONEOK. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Atmos Energy and 9 mentions for ONEOK. Atmos Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat ONEOK's score of 0.92 indicating that ONEOK is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ONEOK has higher revenue and earnings than Atmos Energy. Atmos Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ONEOK, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atmos Energy has a net margin of 24.65% compared to Atmos Energy's net margin of 12.54%. Atmos Energy's return on equity of 15.94% beat ONEOK's return on equity.
Atmos Energy pays an annual dividend of $3.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. ONEOK pays an annual dividend of $3.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Atmos Energy pays out 48.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ONEOK pays out 92.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Atmos Energy has increased its dividend for 40 consecutive years and ONEOK has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Atmos Energy presently has a consensus target price of $129.17, suggesting a potential upside of 11.43%. ONEOK has a consensus target price of $83.58, suggesting a potential upside of 3.19%. Given ONEOK's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Atmos Energy is more favorable than ONEOK.
Atmos Energy has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ONEOK has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ONEOK received 59 more outperform votes than Atmos Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.43% of users gave Atmos Energy an outperform vote while only 57.55% of users gave ONEOK an outperform vote.
90.2% of Atmos Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.1% of ONEOK shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Atmos Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of ONEOK shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Atmos Energy beats ONEOK on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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