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.
ONE Gas (NYSE:OGS) and Ultrapar Participações (NYSE:UGP) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
ONE Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Ultrapar Participações pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. ONE Gas pays out 65.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ultrapar Participações pays out 29.2% 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.
In the previous week, ONE Gas had 19 more articles in the media than Ultrapar Participações. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for ONE Gas and 2 mentions for Ultrapar Participações. Ultrapar Participações' average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat ONE Gas' score of 0.44 indicating that Ultrapar Participações is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ONE Gas has a net margin of 10.86% compared to Ultrapar Participações' net margin of 2.07%. Ultrapar Participações' return on equity of 19.30% beat ONE Gas' return on equity.
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 beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ultrapar Participações has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ONE Gas currently has a consensus target price of $64.94, indicating a potential upside of 5.37%. Ultrapar Participações has a consensus target price of $4.37, indicating a potential downside of 1.43%. Given ONE Gas' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe ONE Gas is more favorable than Ultrapar Participações.
88.7% of ONE Gas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.6% of Ultrapar Participações shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of ONE Gas shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Ultrapar Participações shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Summary
ONE Gas and Ultrapar Participações tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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