OGS vs. UGP, NFE, NFG, NJR, SR, EE, NWN, SLNG, CETY, and LNG
Should you be buying ONE Gas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ONE Gas include Ultrapar Participações (UGP), New Fortress Energy (NFE), National Fuel Gas (NFG), New Jersey Resources (NJR), Spire (SR), Excelerate Energy (EE), Northwest Natural (NWN), Stabilis Solutions (SLNG), Clean Energy Technologies (CETY), and Cheniere Energy (LNG). These companies are all part of the "natural gas distribution" industry.
Ultrapar Participações (NYSE:UGP) and ONE Gas (NYSE:OGS) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking and valuation.
Ultrapar Participações has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ONE Gas has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ultrapar Participações has higher revenue and earnings than ONE Gas. Ultrapar Participações is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ONE Gas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ONE Gas has a net margin of 10.86% compared to ONE Gas' net margin of 2.07%. ONE Gas' return on equity of 19.30% beat Ultrapar Participações' return on equity.
Ultrapar Participações received 97 more outperform votes than ONE Gas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.72% of users gave Ultrapar Participações an outperform vote while only 49.32% of users gave ONE Gas an outperform vote.
Ultrapar Participações pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. ONE Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Ultrapar Participações pays out 29.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ONE Gas pays out 65.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Ultrapar Participações has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and ONE Gas has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years. ONE Gas is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, ONE Gas had 18 more articles in the media than Ultrapar Participações. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for ONE Gas and 2 mentions for Ultrapar Participações. ONE Gas' average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Ultrapar Participações' score of 0.50 indicating that Ultrapar Participações is being referred to more favorably in the media.
3.6% of Ultrapar Participações shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of ONE Gas shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Ultrapar Participações shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of ONE Gas shares are held 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.
Ultrapar Participações currently has a consensus price target of $4.37, suggesting a potential downside of 1.43%. ONE Gas has a consensus price target of $64.94, suggesting a potential upside of 5.37%. Given Ultrapar Participações' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ONE Gas is more favorable than Ultrapar Participações.
Summary
ONE Gas beats Ultrapar Participações on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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