RGCO vs. OKE, SWX, CPK, CTRI, NEXT, MNTK, NBR, NPWR, CAPL, and VTS
Should you be buying RGC Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RGC Resources include ONEOK (OKE), Southwest Gas (SWX), Chesapeake Utilities (CPK), Centuri (CTRI), NextDecade (NEXT), Montauk Renewables (MNTK), Nabors Industries (NBR), NET Power (NPWR), CrossAmerica Partners (CAPL), and Vitesse Energy (VTS).
RGC Resources (NASDAQ:RGCO) and ONEOK (NYSE:OKE) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
RGC Resources has a net margin of 15.82% compared to ONEOK's net margin of 12.54%. ONEOK's return on equity of 15.94% beat RGC Resources' return on equity.
ONEOK received 408 more outperform votes than RGC Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.55% of users gave ONEOK an outperform vote while only 44.53% of users gave RGC Resources an outperform vote.
RGC Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. ONEOK pays an annual dividend of $3.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. RGC Resources pays out 61.5% 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.
ONEOK has a consensus target price of $83.58, suggesting a potential upside of 3.19%. Given ONEOK's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ONEOK is more favorable than RGC Resources.
In the previous week, ONEOK had 7 more articles in the media than RGC Resources. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for ONEOK and 1 mentions for RGC Resources. RGC Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat ONEOK's score of 1.44 indicating that RGC Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ONEOK has higher revenue and earnings than RGC Resources. RGC Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ONEOK, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
35.8% of RGC Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.1% of ONEOK shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of RGC Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of ONEOK shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
RGC Resources has a beta of 0.2, meaning that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ONEOK has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ONEOK beats RGC Resources on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get RGC Resources News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for RGCO and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding RGCO and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
RGC Resources Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
