Transportadora de Gas del Sur (TGS) Competitors

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (NYSE:EBR) and Transportadora de Gas del Sur (NYSE:TGS) are both utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and profitability.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, EBR or TGS?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Transportadora de Gas del Sur. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Transportadora de Gas del Sur, 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
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	$40.18B	0.43	$977.82M	$0.82	9.43
Transportadora de Gas del Sur	$1.21T	0.00	$89.37M	$2.32	11.69

Is EBR or TGS more profitable?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a net margin of 26.50% compared to Transportadora de Gas del Sur's net margin of 15.46%. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' return on equity of 9.00% beat Transportadora de Gas del Sur's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	26.50%	9.00%	3.82%
Transportadora de Gas del Sur	15.46%	7.31%	4.47%

Is EBR or TGS a better dividend stock?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás pays an annual dividend of $0.33 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Transportadora de Gas del Sur pays an annual dividend of $1.5420 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás pays out 40.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Transportadora de Gas del Sur pays out 66.5% 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.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in EBR or TGS?

2.6% of Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.3% of Transportadora de Gas del Sur shares are owned by institutional investors. 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor EBR or TGS?

Transportadora de Gas del Sur received 145 more outperform votes than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.40% of users gave Transportadora de Gas del Sur an outperform vote while only 58.70% of users gave Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	Outperform Votes 162 58.70%	Underperform Votes 114 41.30%
Transportadora de Gas del Sur	Outperform Votes 307 62.40%	Underperform Votes 185 37.60%

Does the media refer more to EBR or TGS?

In the previous week, Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás and Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás both had 3 articles in the media. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Transportadora de Gas del Sur's score of 0.81 indicating that Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Transportadora de Gas del Sur	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility & risk, EBR or TGS?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Transportadora de Gas del Sur has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts recommend EBR or TGS?

Transportadora de Gas del Sur has a consensus price target of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.01%. Given Transportadora de Gas del Sur's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Transportadora de Gas del Sur is more favorable than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	4.00
Transportadora de Gas del Sur	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Summary

Transportadora de Gas del Sur beats Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.