OGS vs. SR, NJR, NFG, OTTR, BKH, ELP, ALE, PNM, BIPC, and ENIC
Should you be buying ONE Gas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ONE Gas include Spire (SR), New Jersey Resources (NJR), National Fuel Gas (NFG), Otter Tail (OTTR), Black Hills (BKH), Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP), ALLETE (ALE), PNM Resources (PNM), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), and Enel Chile (ENIC). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
ONE Gas (NYSE:OGS) and Spire (NYSE:SR) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
88.7% of ONE Gas shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Spire shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of ONE Gas shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Spire shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ONE Gas presently has a consensus price target of $64.56, indicating a potential downside of 0.43%. Spire has a consensus price target of $61.72, indicating a potential downside of 0.14%. Given Spire's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Spire is more favorable than ONE Gas.
ONE Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Spire pays an annual dividend of $3.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. ONE Gas pays out 63.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spire pays out 76.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
ONE Gas has a net margin of 9.75% compared to Spire's net margin of 9.05%. ONE Gas' return on equity of 8.63% beat Spire's return on equity.
ONE Gas has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spire has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Spire had 14 more articles in the media than ONE Gas. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Spire and 17 mentions for ONE Gas. ONE Gas' average media sentiment score of 0.05 beat Spire's score of -0.21 indicating that ONE Gas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ONE Gas has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Spire. Spire is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ONE Gas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Spire received 186 more outperform votes than ONE Gas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.12% of users gave Spire an outperform vote while only 49.55% of users gave ONE Gas an outperform vote.
Summary
ONE Gas beats Spire on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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