NFG vs. ATO, SWX, UGI, NJR, CPK, NWN, OKE, NFE, UGP, and OGS
Should you be buying National Fuel Gas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Fuel Gas include Atmos Energy (ATO), Southwest Gas (SWX), UGI (UGI), New Jersey Resources (NJR), Chesapeake Utilities (CPK), Northwest Natural (NWN), ONEOK (OKE), New Fortress Energy (NFE), Ultrapar Participações (UGP), and ONE Gas (OGS).
Atmos Energy (NYSE:ATO) and National Fuel Gas (NYSE:NFG) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Atmos Energy currently has a consensus target price of $129.17, suggesting a potential upside of 12.53%. National Fuel Gas has a consensus target price of $68.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.21%. Given Atmos Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe National Fuel Gas is more favorable than Atmos Energy.
Atmos Energy pays an annual dividend of $3.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. National Fuel Gas pays an annual dividend of $1.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Atmos Energy pays out 48.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. National Fuel Gas pays out 39.3% 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. National Fuel Gas is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Atmos Energy had 4 more articles in the media than National Fuel Gas. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Atmos Energy and 4 mentions for National Fuel Gas. Atmos Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat National Fuel Gas' score of 1.29 indicating that National Fuel Gas 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 23.84%. Atmos Energy's return on equity of 15.06% beat National Fuel Gas' return on equity.
90.2% of Atmos Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.0% of National Fuel Gas shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Atmos Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of National Fuel Gas shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Atmos Energy received 24 more outperform votes than National Fuel Gas when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.83% of users gave National Fuel Gas an outperform vote while only 64.43% of users gave Atmos Energy an outperform vote.
Atmos Energy has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Fuel Gas has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Atmos Energy has higher revenue and earnings than National Fuel Gas. National Fuel Gas 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 National Fuel Gas on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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