UGP vs. ATO, NFG, NFE, NJR, SR, OGS, EE, NWN, SLNG, and CETY
Should you be buying Ultrapar Participações stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ultrapar Participações include Atmos Energy (ATO), National Fuel Gas (NFG), New Fortress Energy (NFE), New Jersey Resources (NJR), Spire (SR), ONE Gas (OGS), Excelerate Energy (EE), Northwest Natural (NWN), Stabilis Solutions (SLNG), and Clean Energy Technologies (CETY). These companies are all part of the "natural gas distribution" industry.
Atmos Energy (NYSE:ATO) and Ultrapar Participações (NYSE:UGP) are both utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Atmos Energy had 11 more articles in the media than Ultrapar Participações. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Atmos Energy and 2 mentions for Ultrapar Participações. Atmos Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Ultrapar Participações' score of 0.92 indicating that Ultrapar Participações is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Atmos Energy has a net margin of 24.65% compared to Atmos Energy's net margin of 2.07%. Atmos Energy's return on equity of 19.30% beat Ultrapar Participações' return on equity.
Atmos Energy received 155 more outperform votes than Ultrapar Participações when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.43% of users gave Atmos Energy an outperform vote while only 61.72% of users gave Ultrapar Participações an outperform vote.
Atmos Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ultrapar Participações. Ultrapar Participações is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atmos Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atmos Energy presently has a consensus target price of $129.17, indicating a potential upside of 11.43%. Ultrapar Participações has a consensus target price of $4.37, indicating a potential downside of 1.43%. Given Ultrapar Participações' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Atmos Energy is more favorable than Ultrapar Participações.
90.2% of Atmos Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.6% of Ultrapar Participações shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Atmos Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Ultrapar Participações shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Atmos Energy has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ultrapar Participações has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Atmos Energy pays an annual dividend of $3.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Ultrapar Participações pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Atmos Energy pays out 48.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ultrapar Participações pays out 29.2% 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. Atmos Energy has raised its dividend for 40 consecutive years and Ultrapar Participações has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Ultrapar Participações is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Atmos Energy beats Ultrapar Participações on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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