NWN vs. NJR, NFG, SR, OGS, KEN, TDS, SJW, HE, VEON, and IDT Should you be buying Northwest Natural stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northwest Natural include New Jersey Resources (NJR), National Fuel Gas (NFG), Spire (SR), ONE Gas (OGS), Kenon (KEN), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), SJW Group (SJW), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), VEON (VEON), and IDT (IDT). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Northwest Natural (NYSE:NWN ) and New Jersey Resources (NYSE:NJR ) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, valuation and earnings.
Northwest Natural pays an annual dividend of $1.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. New Jersey Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Northwest Natural pays out 85.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. New Jersey Resources pays out 66.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Northwest Natural has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Jersey Resources has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
New Jersey Resources has a net margin of 14.46% compared to Northwest Natural's net margin of 7.36%. New Jersey Resources' return on equity of 12.16% beat Northwest Natural's return on equity.
New Jersey Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Northwest Natural. Northwest Natural is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Jersey Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, New Jersey Resources had 4 more articles in the media than Northwest Natural. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for New Jersey Resources and 2 mentions for Northwest Natural. New Jersey Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Northwest Natural's score of 0.36 indicating that New Jersey Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
New Jersey Resources received 48 more outperform votes than Northwest Natural when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.02% of users gave New Jersey Resources an outperform vote while only 52.50% of users gave Northwest Natural an outperform vote.
Northwest Natural presently has a consensus target price of $41.40, suggesting a potential upside of 7.42%. New Jersey Resources has a consensus target price of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.02%. Given Northwest Natural's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Northwest Natural is more favorable than New Jersey Resources.
75.1% of Northwest Natural shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of New Jersey Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Northwest Natural shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of New Jersey Resources shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary New Jersey Resources beats Northwest Natural on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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