UGP vs. ATO, NFG, NFE, NJR, OGS, SR, 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), ONE Gas (OGS), Spire (SR), 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.
Ultrapar Participações (NYSE:UGP) and Atmos Energy (NYSE:ATO) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
Ultrapar Participações currently has a consensus price target of $4.37, indicating a potential upside of 9.03%. Atmos Energy has a consensus price target of $129.17, indicating a potential upside of 11.07%. Given Atmos Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Atmos Energy is more favorable than Ultrapar Participações.
In the previous week, Ultrapar Participações had 2 more articles in the media than Atmos Energy. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ultrapar Participações and 6 mentions for Atmos Energy. Atmos Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Ultrapar Participações' score of 0.59 indicating that Atmos Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ultrapar Participações pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Atmos Energy pays an annual dividend of $3.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Ultrapar Participações pays out 29.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Atmos Energy pays out 48.3% 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. Ultrapar Participações is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
3.6% of Ultrapar Participações shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.2% of Atmos Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Ultrapar Participações shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Atmos Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Atmos Energy has a net margin of 24.65% compared to Ultrapar Participações' net margin of 2.07%. Ultrapar Participações' return on equity of 19.30% beat Atmos Energy's return on equity.
Atmos Energy received 154 more outperform votes than Ultrapar Participações when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.43% of users gave Atmos Energy an outperform vote while only 61.79% of users gave Ultrapar Participações an outperform vote.
Ultrapar Participações has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atmos Energy has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Atmos Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Summary
Atmos Energy beats Ultrapar Participações on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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