RGC Resources (RGCO) Competitors

RGC Resources (NASDAQ:RGCO) and XPLR Infrastructure (NYSE:XIFR) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of RGCO or XIFR?

35.8% of RGC Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.0% of XPLR Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.6% of RGC Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of XPLR Infrastructure shares are owned by company 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.

Do analysts rate RGCO or XIFR?

XPLR Infrastructure has a consensus target price of $20.27, indicating a potential upside of 117.22%. Given XPLR Infrastructure's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe XPLR Infrastructure is more favorable than RGC Resources.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
RGC Resources	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
XPLR Infrastructure	2 Sell rating(s)	14 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is RGCO or XIFR a better dividend stock?

RGC Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.83 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. XPLR Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $3.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 39.3%. RGC Resources pays out 70.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. XPLR Infrastructure pays out -3,670.0% 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. RGC Resources has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years. XPLR Infrastructure is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is RGCO or XIFR more profitable?

RGC Resources has a net margin of 13.73% compared to XPLR Infrastructure's net margin of -0.73%. RGC Resources' return on equity of 10.94% beat XPLR Infrastructure's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
RGC Resources	13.73%	10.94%	3.74%
XPLR Infrastructure	-0.73%	1.34%	0.85%

Which has more risk and volatility, RGCO or XIFR?

RGC Resources has a beta of 0.18, indicating that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, XPLR Infrastructure has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to RGCO or XIFR?

In the previous week, XPLR Infrastructure had 4 more articles in the media than RGC Resources. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for XPLR Infrastructure and 1 mentions for RGC Resources. RGC Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat XPLR Infrastructure's score of 0.33 indicating that RGC Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
RGC Resources	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
XPLR Infrastructure	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, RGCO or XIFR?

RGC Resources has higher earnings, but lower revenue than XPLR Infrastructure. XPLR Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RGC Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
RGC Resources	$84.64M	2.46	$11.76M	$1.17	17.31
XPLR Infrastructure	$1.23B	0.71	-$10M	-$0.10	-93.30

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer RGCO or XIFR?

XPLR Infrastructure received 268 more outperform votes than RGC Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.21% of users gave XPLR Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 42.36% of users gave RGC Resources an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
RGC Resources	Outperform Votes 122 42.36%	Underperform Votes 166 57.64%
XPLR Infrastructure	Outperform Votes 390 58.21%	Underperform Votes 280 41.79%

Summary

XPLR Infrastructure beats RGC Resources on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.