SWX vs. UGI, NFG, NJR, CPK, NWN, OKE, ATO, NEXT, CTRI, and RGCO
Should you be buying Southwest Gas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southwest Gas include UGI (UGI), National Fuel Gas (NFG), New Jersey Resources (NJR), Chesapeake Utilities (CPK), Northwest Natural (NWN), ONEOK (OKE), Atmos Energy (ATO), NextDecade (NEXT), Centuri (CTRI), and RGC Resources (RGCO).
Southwest Gas vs.
Southwest Gas (NYSE:SWX) and UGI (NYSE:UGI) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Southwest Gas has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UGI has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Southwest Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. UGI pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. 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. UGI pays out 59.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. UGI has raised its dividend for 37 consecutive years. UGI is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
92.8% of Southwest Gas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.3% of UGI shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Southwest Gas shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of UGI shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
UGI has a net margin of 7.73% compared to Southwest Gas' net margin of 3.44%. UGI's return on equity of 15.19% beat Southwest Gas' return on equity.
Southwest Gas presently has a consensus price target of $73.80, indicating a potential downside of 4.05%. UGI has a consensus price target of $28.33, indicating a potential downside of 14.45%. Given Southwest Gas' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Southwest Gas is more favorable than UGI.
UGI has higher revenue and earnings than Southwest Gas. UGI 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 received 53 more outperform votes than UGI when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.72% of users gave UGI an outperform vote while only 51.01% of users gave Southwest Gas an outperform vote.
In the previous week, UGI had 4 more articles in the media than Southwest Gas. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for UGI and 6 mentions for Southwest Gas. UGI's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Southwest Gas' score of 0.44 indicating that UGI is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
UGI beats Southwest Gas on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SWX) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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