EE vs. UGP, NFG, NFE, NJR, SR, OGS, NWN, SLNG, CETY, and LNG
Should you be buying Excelerate Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Excelerate Energy include Ultrapar Participações (UGP), National Fuel Gas (NFG), New Fortress Energy (NFE), New Jersey Resources (NJR), Spire (SR), ONE Gas (OGS), 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 Excelerate Energy (NYSE:EE) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
Ultrapar Participações has higher revenue and earnings than Excelerate Energy. Ultrapar Participações is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Excelerate Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
3.6% of Ultrapar Participações shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.8% of Excelerate Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Ultrapar Participações shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Excelerate Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ultrapar Participações pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Excelerate Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Ultrapar Participações pays out 29.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Excelerate Energy pays out 9.9% 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 increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Excelerate Energy has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Ultrapar Participações currently has a consensus target price of $4.37, suggesting a potential downside of 1.43%. Excelerate Energy has a consensus target price of $22.75, suggesting a potential upside of 27.74%. Given Ultrapar Participações' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Excelerate Energy is more favorable than Ultrapar Participações.
In the previous week, Excelerate Energy had 1 more articles in the media than Ultrapar Participações. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Excelerate Energy and 2 mentions for Ultrapar Participações. Excelerate Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Ultrapar Participações' score of 0.48 indicating that Ultrapar Participações is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Excelerate Energy has a net margin of 2.60% compared to Excelerate Energy's net margin of 2.07%. Excelerate Energy's return on equity of 19.30% beat Ultrapar Participações' return on equity.
Ultrapar Participações received 305 more outperform votes than Excelerate Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.72% of users gave Ultrapar Participações an outperform vote while only 26.83% of users gave Excelerate Energy an outperform vote.
Ultrapar Participações has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Excelerate Energy has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ultrapar Participações and Excelerate Energy tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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