UGP vs. NFE, EE, MGY, CPG, SUN, VAL, CWEN, BEPC, TDW, and SM
Should you be buying Ultrapar Participações stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ultrapar Participações include New Fortress Energy (NFE), Excelerate Energy (EE), Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), Sunoco (SUN), Valaris (VAL), Clearway Energy (CWEN), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Tidewater (TDW), and SM Energy (SM). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Ultrapar Participações (NYSE:UGP) and New Fortress Energy (NASDAQ:NFE) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.
3.6% of Ultrapar Participações shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of New Fortress Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Ultrapar Participações shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 37.1% of New Fortress Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ultrapar Participações currently has a consensus target price of $4.37, indicating a potential downside of 10.15%. New Fortress Energy has a consensus target price of $38.00, indicating a potential upside of 40.17%. Given New Fortress Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe New Fortress Energy is more favorable than Ultrapar Participações.
New Fortress Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ultrapar Participações. Ultrapar Participações is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Fortress Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, New Fortress Energy had 6 more articles in the media than Ultrapar Participações. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for New Fortress Energy and 3 mentions for Ultrapar Participações. New Fortress Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Ultrapar Participações' score of 0.75 indicating that New Fortress Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ultrapar Participações received 205 more outperform votes than New Fortress Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.72% of users gave Ultrapar Participações an outperform vote while only 55.22% of users gave New Fortress Energy an outperform vote.
Ultrapar Participações pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. New Fortress Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Ultrapar Participações pays out 29.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New Fortress Energy pays out 18.2% 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.
New Fortress Energy has a net margin of 17.90% compared to Ultrapar Participações' net margin of 2.07%. New Fortress Energy's return on equity of 31.34% beat Ultrapar Participações' return on equity.
Ultrapar Participações has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Fortress Energy has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
New Fortress Energy beats Ultrapar Participações on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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