CPK vs. SWX, NFG, UGI, NJR, NWN, OKE, ATO, CTRI, NEXT, and RGCO
Should you be buying Chesapeake Utilities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chesapeake Utilities include Southwest Gas (SWX), National Fuel Gas (NFG), UGI (UGI), New Jersey Resources (NJR), Northwest Natural (NWN), ONEOK (OKE), Atmos Energy (ATO), Centuri (CTRI), NextDecade (NEXT), and RGC Resources (RGCO).
Southwest Gas (NYSE:SWX) and Chesapeake Utilities (NYSE:CPK) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
92.8% of Southwest Gas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.1% of Chesapeake Utilities shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Southwest Gas shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Chesapeake Utilities shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Chesapeake Utilities has a net margin of 13.90% compared to Chesapeake Utilities' net margin of 3.56%. Southwest Gas' return on equity of 10.17% beat Chesapeake Utilities' return on equity.
Southwest Gas presently has a consensus price target of $75.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.34%. Chesapeake Utilities has a consensus price target of $109.80, indicating a potential downside of 1.97%. Given Southwest Gas' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chesapeake Utilities is more favorable than Southwest Gas.
Southwest Gas has higher revenue and earnings than Chesapeake Utilities. Chesapeake Utilities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southwest Gas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chesapeake Utilities received 60 more outperform votes than Southwest Gas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.76% of users gave Chesapeake Utilities an outperform vote while only 51.49% of users gave Southwest Gas an outperform vote.
Southwest Gas has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chesapeake Utilities has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Southwest Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Chesapeake Utilities pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Southwest Gas pays out 92.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Chesapeake Utilities pays out 49.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Southwest Gas has increased its dividend for 17 consecutive years and Chesapeake Utilities has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Southwest Gas and Southwest Gas both had 7 articles in the media. Southwest Gas' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Chesapeake Utilities' score of 0.60 indicating that Chesapeake Utilities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Chesapeake Utilities beats Southwest Gas on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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