SR vs. UGP, NFE, NFG, NJR, OGS, EE, NWN, SLNG, CETY, and LNG
Should you be buying Spire stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spire include Ultrapar Participações (UGP), New Fortress Energy (NFE), National Fuel Gas (NFG), New Jersey Resources (NJR), ONE Gas (OGS), Excelerate Energy (EE), Northwest Natural (NWN), Stabilis Solutions (SLNG), Clean Energy Technologies (CETY), and Cheniere Energy (LNG). These companies are all part of the "natural gas distribution" industry.
Ultrapar Participações (NYSE:UGP) and Spire (NYSE:SR) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking and media sentiment.
Ultrapar Participações has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spire has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ultrapar Participações pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Spire pays an annual dividend of $3.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Ultrapar Participações pays out 29.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spire pays out 76.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ultrapar Participações has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Spire has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years. Spire is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Spire had 9 more articles in the media than Ultrapar Participações. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Spire and 2 mentions for Ultrapar Participações. Spire's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Ultrapar Participações' score of 0.49 indicating that Ultrapar Participações is being referred to more favorably in the media.
3.6% of Ultrapar Participações shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Spire shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Ultrapar Participações shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Spire shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ultrapar Participações currently has a consensus target price of $4.37, indicating a potential downside of 2.53%. Spire has a consensus target price of $62.17, indicating a potential upside of 2.06%. Given Ultrapar Participações' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Spire is more favorable than Ultrapar Participações.
Spire received 89 more outperform votes than Ultrapar Participações when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.72% of users gave Ultrapar Participações an outperform vote while only 59.04% of users gave Spire an outperform vote.
Ultrapar Participações has higher revenue and earnings than Spire. Ultrapar Participações is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Spire has a net margin of 9.05% compared to Spire's net margin of 2.07%. Spire's return on equity of 19.30% beat Ultrapar Participações' return on equity.
Summary
Spire beats Ultrapar Participações on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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