XIFR vs. UGP, EE, TAC, NFE, RNW, ENLT, CEPU, KEN, EDN, and CTRI
Should you be buying XPLR Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of XPLR Infrastructure include Ultrapar Participações (UGP), Excelerate Energy (EE), TransAlta (TAC), New Fortress Energy (NFE), ReNew Energy Global (RNW), Enlight Renewable Energy (ENLT), Central Puerto (CEPU), Kenon (KEN), Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN), and Centuri (CTRI). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
XPLR Infrastructure vs.
Ultrapar Participações (NYSE:UGP) and XPLR Infrastructure (NYSE:XIFR) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.
Ultrapar Participações currently has a consensus target price of $3.20, indicating a potential upside of 11.69%. XPLR Infrastructure has a consensus target price of $20.27, indicating a potential upside of 131.09%. Given XPLR Infrastructure's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe XPLR Infrastructure is more favorable than Ultrapar Participações.
Ultrapar Participações has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, XPLR Infrastructure has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ultrapar Participações pays an annual dividend of $0.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. XPLR Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $3.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 41.8%. Ultrapar Participações pays out 33.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. XPLR Infrastructure pays out -3,670.0% 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. XPLR Infrastructure is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
XPLR Infrastructure received 66 more outperform votes than Ultrapar Participações when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.02% of users gave Ultrapar Participações an outperform vote while only 58.21% of users gave XPLR Infrastructure an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Ultrapar Participações had 1 more articles in the media than XPLR Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ultrapar Participações and 2 mentions for XPLR Infrastructure. XPLR Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Ultrapar Participações' score of 0.25 indicating that XPLR Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
3.6% of Ultrapar Participações shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.0% of XPLR Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Ultrapar Participações shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of XPLR Infrastructure shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ultrapar Participações has a net margin of 2.00% compared to XPLR Infrastructure's net margin of -0.73%. Ultrapar Participações' return on equity of 18.03% beat XPLR Infrastructure's return on equity.
Ultrapar Participações has higher revenue and earnings than XPLR Infrastructure. XPLR Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ultrapar Participações, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ultrapar Participações beats XPLR Infrastructure on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:XIFR) was last updated on 3/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
