OGS vs. SR, NJR, NFG, NWN, ALE, OTTR, PNM, BKH, ENIC, and PRMW
Should you be buying ONE Gas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ONE Gas include Spire (SR), New Jersey Resources (NJR), National Fuel Gas (NFG), Northwest Natural (NWN), ALLETE (ALE), Otter Tail (OTTR), PNM Resources (PNM), Black Hills (BKH), Enel Chile (ENIC), and Primo Water (PRMW). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Spire (NYSE:SR) and ONE Gas (NYSE:OGS) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Spire received 186 more outperform votes than ONE Gas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.12% of users gave Spire an outperform vote while only 49.44% of users gave ONE Gas an outperform vote.
Spire pays an annual dividend of $3.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. ONE Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Spire pays out 76.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ONE Gas pays out 65.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spire has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years and ONE Gas has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Spire is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
ONE Gas has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Spire. ONE Gas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spire, 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 9.05%. Spire's return on equity of 8.37% beat ONE Gas' return on equity.
87.4% of Spire shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of ONE Gas shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Spire shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of ONE Gas shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Spire has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ONE Gas has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ONE Gas had 1 more articles in the media than Spire. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for ONE Gas and 2 mentions for Spire. ONE Gas' average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat Spire's score of 0.88 indicating that Spire is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Spire currently has a consensus target price of $61.72, suggesting a potential downside of 1.39%. ONE Gas has a consensus target price of $64.56, suggesting a potential upside of 1.32%. Given Spire's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ONE Gas is more favorable than Spire.
Summary
ONE Gas beats Spire on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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