RGCO vs. SJT, ZEO, NC, FREY, PNRG, NRGV, GEVO, HNRG, FET, and AMTX
Should you be buying RGC Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RGC Resources include San Juan Basin Royalty Trust (SJT), Zeo Energy (ZEO), NACCO Industries (NC), FREYR Battery (FREY), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), Energy Vault (NRGV), Gevo (GEVO), Hallador Energy (HNRG), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), and Aemetis (AMTX). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
RGC Resources (NASDAQ:RGCO) and San Juan Basin Royalty Trust (NYSE:SJT) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
35.8% of RGC Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.4% of San Juan Basin Royalty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.0% of RGC Resources 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.
In the previous week, RGC Resources had 4 more articles in the media than San Juan Basin Royalty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for RGC Resources and 2 mentions for San Juan Basin Royalty Trust. San Juan Basin Royalty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat RGC Resources' score of 0.34 indicating that San Juan Basin Royalty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
San Juan Basin Royalty Trust received 81 more outperform votes than RGC Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.55% of users gave San Juan Basin Royalty Trust an outperform vote while only 44.53% of users gave RGC Resources an outperform vote.
RGC Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. San Juan Basin Royalty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.5%. RGC Resources pays out 61.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. San Juan Basin Royalty Trust pays out 45.5% 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. San Juan Basin Royalty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
RGC Resources has a beta of 0.22, meaning that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, San Juan Basin Royalty Trust has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
San Juan Basin Royalty Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RGC Resources. San Juan Basin Royalty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RGC Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
San Juan Basin Royalty Trust has a net margin of 96.72% compared to RGC Resources' net margin of 14.75%. San Juan Basin Royalty Trust's return on equity of 1,842.90% beat RGC Resources' return on equity.
Summary
San Juan Basin Royalty Trust beats RGC Resources on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get RGC Resources News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for RGCO and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding RGCO and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Skip ChartThis chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Skip Chart
RGC Resources Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools