EE vs. NFE, UGP, HPK, PARR, VET, ENLT, ARRY, DK, CRGY, and VTLE
Should you be buying Excelerate Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Excelerate Energy include New Fortress Energy (NFE), Ultrapar Participações (UGP), HighPeak Energy (HPK), Par Pacific (PARR), Vermilion Energy (VET), Enlight Renewable Energy (ENLT), Array Technologies (ARRY), Delek US (DK), Crescent Energy (CRGY), and Vital Energy (VTLE). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Excelerate Energy (NYSE:EE) and New Fortress Energy (NASDAQ:NFE) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
Excelerate Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. New Fortress Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Excelerate Energy pays out 9.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New Fortress Energy pays out 15.1% 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.
New Fortress Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Excelerate Energy. New Fortress Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Excelerate Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
21.8% of Excelerate Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of New Fortress Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Excelerate Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.1% of New Fortress Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Excelerate Energy currently has a consensus target price of $22.75, indicating a potential upside of 25.66%. New Fortress Energy has a consensus target price of $38.57, indicating a potential upside of 47.67%. Given New Fortress Energy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe New Fortress Energy is more favorable than Excelerate Energy.
Excelerate Energy has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Fortress Energy has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, New Fortress Energy had 8 more articles in the media than Excelerate Energy. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for New Fortress Energy and 4 mentions for Excelerate Energy. Excelerate Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat New Fortress Energy's score of -0.03 indicating that Excelerate Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
New Fortress Energy received 99 more outperform votes than Excelerate Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.28% of users gave New Fortress Energy an outperform vote while only 26.83% of users gave Excelerate Energy an outperform vote.
New Fortress Energy has a net margin of 22.70% compared to Excelerate Energy's net margin of 2.62%. New Fortress Energy's return on equity of 36.16% beat Excelerate Energy's return on equity.
Summary
New Fortress Energy beats Excelerate Energy on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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