NJR vs. SWX, NFG, UGI, CPK, NWN, OKE, ATO, BIPC, TLK, and EBR
Should you be buying New Jersey Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Jersey Resources include Southwest Gas (SWX), National Fuel Gas (NFG), UGI (UGI), Chesapeake Utilities (CPK), Northwest Natural (NWN), ONEOK (OKE), Atmos Energy (ATO), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), Perusahaan Perseroan (Persero) PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (TLK), and Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR).
New Jersey Resources (NYSE:NJR) and Southwest Gas (NYSE:SWX) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
New Jersey Resources received 45 more outperform votes than Southwest Gas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.02% of users gave New Jersey Resources an outperform vote while only 51.49% of users gave Southwest Gas an outperform vote.
New Jersey Resources has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southwest Gas has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.
New Jersey Resources has a net margin of 14.46% compared to Southwest Gas' net margin of 3.56%. New Jersey Resources' return on equity of 12.16% beat Southwest Gas' return on equity.
In the previous week, New Jersey Resources had 6 more articles in the media than Southwest Gas. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for New Jersey Resources and 2 mentions for Southwest Gas. Southwest Gas' average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat New Jersey Resources' score of 0.63 indicating that Southwest Gas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
71.0% of New Jersey Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.8% of Southwest Gas shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of New Jersey Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Southwest Gas shares are owned by 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.
New Jersey Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Southwest Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. New Jersey Resources pays out 66.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Southwest Gas pays out 92.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. New Jersey Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
New Jersey Resources has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Southwest Gas. New Jersey Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southwest Gas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
New Jersey Resources presently has a consensus price target of $45.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.74%. Southwest Gas has a consensus price target of $75.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.33%. Given New Jersey Resources' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe New Jersey Resources is more favorable than Southwest Gas.
Summary
New Jersey Resources beats Southwest Gas on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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