Kodiak Gas Services (KGS) Competitors

Alliant Energy (NASDAQ:LNT) and Kodiak Gas Services (NYSE:KGS) are both utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.

Is LNT or KGS a better dividend stock?

Alliant Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Kodiak Gas Services pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Alliant Energy pays out 78.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kodiak Gas Services pays out 565.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alliant Energy has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years.

Which has better earnings and valuation, LNT or KGS?

Alliant Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Kodiak Gas Services. Alliant Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kodiak Gas Services, 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
Alliant Energy	$3.97B	4.06	$703M	$2.58	24.34
Kodiak Gas Services	$850.38M	4.50	$20.07M	$0.29	150.57

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of LNT or KGS?

79.9% of Alliant Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.0% of Kodiak Gas Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Alliant Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Kodiak Gas Services shares are owned 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.

Is LNT or KGS more profitable?

Alliant Energy has a net margin of 16.66% compared to Kodiak Gas Services' net margin of 2.23%. Alliant Energy's return on equity of 10.56% beat Kodiak Gas Services' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alliant Energy	16.66%	10.56%	3.31%
Kodiak Gas Services	2.23%	7.91%	2.63%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in LNT or KGS?

Alliant Energy received 1 more outperform votes than Kodiak Gas Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.32% of users gave Kodiak Gas Services an outperform vote while only 36.14% of users gave Alliant Energy an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Alliant Energy	Outperform Votes 30 36.14%	Underperform Votes 53 63.86%
Kodiak Gas Services	Outperform Votes 29 76.32%	Underperform Votes 9 23.68%

Does the media favor LNT or KGS?

In the previous week, Alliant Energy had 16 more articles in the media than Kodiak Gas Services. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Alliant Energy and 5 mentions for Kodiak Gas Services. Kodiak Gas Services' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Alliant Energy's score of 1.20 indicating that Kodiak Gas Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Alliant Energy	13 Very Positive mention(s)	5 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Kodiak Gas Services	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do analysts rate LNT or KGS?

Alliant Energy presently has a consensus target price of $63.39, indicating a potential upside of 0.92%. Kodiak Gas Services has a consensus target price of $41.09, indicating a potential downside of 5.90%. Given Alliant Energy's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Alliant Energy is more favorable than Kodiak Gas Services.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Alliant Energy	0 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33
Kodiak Gas Services	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	9 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.82

Which has more risk & volatility, LNT or KGS?

Alliant Energy has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kodiak Gas Services has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Alliant Energy beats Kodiak Gas Services on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.