EE vs. UGP, NFE, VET, ARRY, ENLT, HPK, CRGY, NEXT, VTLE, and DK
Should you be buying Excelerate Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Excelerate Energy include Ultrapar Participações (UGP), New Fortress Energy (NFE), Vermilion Energy (VET), Array Technologies (ARRY), Enlight Renewable Energy (ENLT), HighPeak Energy (HPK), Crescent Energy (CRGY), NextDecade (NEXT), Vital Energy (VTLE), and Delek US (DK). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Ultrapar Participações (NYSE:UGP) and Excelerate Energy (NYSE:EE) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Ultrapar Participações has higher revenue and earnings than Excelerate Energy. Ultrapar Participações is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Excelerate Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ultrapar Participações pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Excelerate Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Ultrapar Participações pays out 29.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Excelerate Energy pays out 9.9% 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. Ultrapar Participações has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Ultrapar Participações is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Excelerate Energy has a net margin of 2.60% compared to Excelerate Energy's net margin of 2.07%. Excelerate Energy's return on equity of 19.30% beat Ultrapar Participações' return on equity.
Ultrapar Participações has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Excelerate Energy has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ultrapar Participações currently has a consensus price target of $4.37, suggesting a potential downside of 9.97%. Excelerate Energy has a consensus price target of $22.75, suggesting a potential upside of 21.98%. Given Ultrapar Participações' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Excelerate Energy is more favorable than Ultrapar Participações.
In the previous week, Excelerate Energy had 6 more articles in the media than Ultrapar Participações. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Excelerate Energy and 3 mentions for Ultrapar Participações. Excelerate Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Ultrapar Participações' score of 0.49 indicating that Ultrapar Participações is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ultrapar Participações received 305 more outperform votes than Excelerate Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.72% of users gave Ultrapar Participações an outperform vote while only 26.83% of users gave Excelerate Energy an outperform vote.
3.6% of Ultrapar Participações shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.8% of Excelerate Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Ultrapar Participações 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Ultrapar Participações beats Excelerate Energy on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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