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Should you be buying Chesapeake Utilities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chesapeake Utilities include Southwest Gas (SWX), National Fuel Gas (NFG), UGI (UGI), New Jersey Resources (NJR), Northwest Natural (NWN), ONEOK (OKE), Atmos Energy (ATO), NextDecade (NEXT), Centuri (CTRI), and RGC Resources (RGCO).
Chesapeake Utilities vs.
Southwest Gas (NYSE:SWX) and Chesapeake Utilities (NYSE:CPK) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Chesapeake Utilities received 60 more outperform votes than Southwest Gas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.43% of users gave Chesapeake Utilities an outperform vote while only 51.21% of users gave Southwest Gas an outperform vote.
Southwest Gas currently has a consensus target price of $73.67, indicating a potential downside of 3.45%. Chesapeake Utilities has a consensus target price of $121.00, indicating a potential downside of 6.24%. Given Southwest Gas' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Southwest Gas is more favorable than Chesapeake Utilities.
Chesapeake Utilities has a net margin of 14.16% compared to Southwest Gas' net margin of 3.44%. Chesapeake Utilities' return on equity of 9.08% beat Southwest Gas' return on equity.
92.8% of Southwest Gas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.1% of Chesapeake Utilities shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Southwest Gas shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Chesapeake Utilities shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Southwest Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Chesapeake Utilities pays an annual dividend of $2.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Southwest Gas pays out 100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Chesapeake Utilities pays out 51.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Southwest Gas has raised its dividend for 17 consecutive years and Chesapeake Utilities has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Southwest Gas had 2 more articles in the media than Chesapeake Utilities. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Southwest Gas and 6 mentions for Chesapeake Utilities. Southwest Gas' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Chesapeake Utilities' score of 0.82 indicating that Southwest Gas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Southwest Gas has higher revenue and earnings than Chesapeake Utilities. Chesapeake Utilities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southwest Gas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Southwest Gas has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chesapeake Utilities has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Chesapeake Utilities beats Southwest Gas on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CPK) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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