Excelerate Energy (EE) Competitors

National Fuel Gas (NYSE:NFG) and Excelerate Energy (NYSE:EE) 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 media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.

Do analysts prefer NFG or EE?

National Fuel Gas currently has a consensus target price of $69.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.94%. Excelerate Energy has a consensus target price of $25.67, suggesting a potential downside of 14.81%. Given National Fuel Gas' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe National Fuel Gas is more favorable than Excelerate Energy.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
National Fuel Gas	1 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
Excelerate Energy	1 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Is NFG or EE more profitable?

National Fuel Gas has a net margin of 3.99% compared to Excelerate Energy's net margin of 3.14%. National Fuel Gas' return on equity of 14.88% beat Excelerate Energy's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
National Fuel Gas	3.99%	14.88%	5.43%
Excelerate Energy	3.14%	1.39%	0.90%

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in NFG or EE?

74.0% of National Fuel Gas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.8% of Excelerate Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of National Fuel Gas shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Excelerate Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is NFG or EE a better dividend stock?

National Fuel Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Excelerate Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. National Fuel Gas pays out 254.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Excelerate Energy pays out 24.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. National Fuel Gas has raised its dividend for 55 consecutive years. National Fuel Gas is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor NFG or EE?

National Fuel Gas received 433 more outperform votes than Excelerate Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.22% of users gave National Fuel Gas an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Excelerate Energy an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
National Fuel Gas	Outperform Votes 450 65.22%	Underperform Votes 240 34.78%
Excelerate Energy	Outperform Votes 17 33.33%	Underperform Votes 34 66.67%

Which has better valuation and earnings, NFG or EE?

National Fuel Gas has higher revenue and earnings than Excelerate Energy. Excelerate Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Fuel Gas, 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
National Fuel Gas	$1.94B	2.93	$77.51M	$0.81	77.48
Excelerate Energy	$816.93M	3.92	$30.41M	$0.99	30.43

Does the media prefer NFG or EE?

In the previous week, National Fuel Gas had 4 more articles in the media than Excelerate Energy. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for National Fuel Gas and 4 mentions for Excelerate Energy. Excelerate Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat National Fuel Gas' score of 0.94 indicating that Excelerate Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
National Fuel Gas	5 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Excelerate Energy	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more risk and volatility, NFG or EE?

National Fuel Gas has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Excelerate Energy has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

National Fuel Gas beats Excelerate Energy on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.