Compare Stocks: SR, LNT, ATO, and CPK

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ATO Atmos Energy	$163.27 -0.9%	$172.03	$160.10 ▼ $192.51	$27.85B	0.6	857,936 shs	970,683 shs
CPK Chesapeake Utilities	$130.01 +0.3%	$132.92	$118.88 ▼ $140.83	$3.12B	0.67	142,384 shs	177,952 shs
LNT Alliant Energy	$67.26 +0.0%	$71.19	$63.28 ▼ $78.81	$17.44B	0.54	1.86 million shs	1.95 million shs
SR Spire	$80.33 -1.4%	$81.81	$74.81 ▼ $95.31	$4.82B	0.54	454,137 shs	500,624 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ATO Atmos Energy	-0.97%	-2.46%	-3.56%	-3.86%	-0.35%
CPK Chesapeake Utilities	+0.22%	-2.05%	-3.54%	+5.23%	+5.02%
LNT Alliant Energy	+0.01%	-1.04%	-4.24%	-8.00%	+5.11%
SR Spire	-1.49%	-2.74%	-2.71%	+1.54%	+5.31%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ATO Atmos Energy	$163.27 -0.9%	$172.03	$160.10 ▼ $192.51	$27.85B	0.6	857,936 shs	970,683 shs
CPK Chesapeake Utilities	$130.01 +0.3%	$132.92	$118.88 ▼ $140.83	$3.12B	0.67	142,384 shs	177,952 shs
LNT Alliant Energy	$67.26 +0.0%	$71.19	$63.28 ▼ $78.81	$17.44B	0.54	1.86 million shs	1.95 million shs
SR Spire	$80.33 -1.4%	$81.81	$74.81 ▼ $95.31	$4.82B	0.54	454,137 shs	500,624 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ATO Atmos Energy	-0.97%	-2.46%	-3.56%	-3.86%	-0.35%
CPK Chesapeake Utilities	+0.22%	-2.05%	-3.54%	+5.23%	+5.02%
LNT Alliant Energy	+0.01%	-1.04%	-4.24%	-8.00%	+5.11%
SR Spire	-1.49%	-2.74%	-2.71%	+1.54%	+5.31%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
ATO Atmos Energy	2.23	Hold	$186.09	13.98% Upside
CPK Chesapeake Utilities	2.40	Hold	$142.00	9.23% Upside
LNT Alliant Energy	2.64	Moderate Buy	$77.00	14.48% Upside
SR Spire	2.75	Moderate Buy	$94.00	17.02% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest SR, LNT, ATO, and CPK Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
9/11/2026	CPK Chesapeake Utilities	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target	Outperform	$150.00
9/11/2026	ATO Atmos Energy	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Overweight ➝ Neutral	$198.00 ➝ $180.00
8/28/2026	ATO Atmos Energy	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy (B)
8/27/2026	LNT Alliant Energy	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy	$80.00
8/21/2026	SR Spire	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight	$96.00 ➝ $91.00
8/21/2026	ATO Atmos Energy	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Equal Weight	$196.00 ➝ $190.00
8/13/2026	ATO Atmos Energy	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Hold	$188.00 ➝ $179.00
8/10/2026	CPK Chesapeake Utilities	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight	$132.00 ➝ $134.00
8/3/2026	LNT Alliant Energy	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform	$80.00 ➝ $78.00
8/3/2026	LNT Alliant Energy	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral	$76.00 ➝ $75.00
7/28/2026	LNT Alliant Energy	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Buy (B+) ➝ Buy (B)

(Data available from 9/11/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
ATO Atmos Energy	$4.70B	5.87	$11.84 per share	13.79	$84.47 per share	1.93
CPK Chesapeake Utilities	$930M	3.37	$10.55 per share	12.32	$67.59 per share	1.92
LNT Alliant Energy	$4.43B	3.94	$6.52 per share	10.31	$28.53 per share	2.36
SR Spire	$2.48B	1.92	$9.59 per share	8.38	$53.32 per share	1.51

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
ATO Atmos Energy	$1.20B	$8.41	19.41	18.12	2.85	28.50%	9.67%	4.67%	11/4/2026 (Estimated)
CPK Chesapeake Utilities	$140.30M	$6.27	20.73	17.64	N/A	15.12%	9.34%	3.73%	11/5/2026 (Estimated)
LNT Alliant Energy	$810M	$3.16	21.28	18.33	2.83	18.45%	11.16%	3.31%	11/5/2026 (Estimated)
SR Spire	$271.70M	$8.97	8.96	14.58	1.82	21.48%	8.65%	2.21%	11/13/2026 (Estimated)

Latest SR, LNT, ATO, and CPK Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/6/2026	Q2 2026	CPK Chesapeake Utilities	$1.07	$1.05	-$0.02	$1.05	$198.91 million	$201.90 million
8/5/2026	Q3 2026	ATO Atmos Energy	$1.35	$1.43	+$0.08	$1.43	$900.82 million	$879.06 million
8/5/2026	Q3 2026	SR Spire	-$0.3168	-$0.26	+$0.0568	$3.57	$394.62 million	$420.20 million
7/30/2026	Q2 2026	LNT Alliant Energy	$0.5790	$0.65	+$0.0710	$0.65	$896.94 million	$971.00 million

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
ATO Atmos Energy	$4.00	2.45%	+8.63%	47.56%	41 Years
CPK Chesapeake Utilities	$2.94	2.26%	+9.31%	46.89%	22 Years
LNT Alliant Energy	$2.14	3.18%	+5.96%	67.72%	22 Years
SR Spire	$3.30	4.11%	+4.75%	36.79%	22 Years

Latest SR, LNT, ATO, and CPK Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
8/6/2026	CPK Chesapeake Utilities	quarterly	$0.7350	2.22%	9/14/2026	9/14/2026	10/5/2026
7/30/2026	SR Spire	quarterly	$0.8250	4.11%	9/11/2026	9/11/2026	10/2/2026
8/5/2026	ATO Atmos Energy	quarterly	$1.00	2.38%	8/24/2026	8/24/2026	9/8/2026
7/16/2026	LNT Alliant Energy	quarterly	$0.5350	3.02%	7/31/2026	7/31/2026	8/17/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
ATO Atmos Energy	0.64	0.81	0.73
CPK Chesapeake Utilities	0.79	0.32	0.28
LNT Alliant Energy	1.41	0.47	0.35
SR Spire	1.61	0.37	0.27

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
ATO Atmos Energy	90.17%
CPK Chesapeake Utilities	83.11%
LNT Alliant Energy	79.90%
SR Spire	87.36%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
ATO Atmos Energy	0.43%
CPK Chesapeake Utilities	1.36%
LNT Alliant Energy	0.26%
SR Spire	2.26%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
ATO Atmos Energy	5,487	168.99 million	168.26 million	Optionable
CPK Chesapeake Utilities	1,300	24.11 million	23.78 million	Optionable
LNT Alliant Energy	2,948	259.29 million	258.61 million	Optionable
SR Spire	3,497	59.11 million	57.78 million	Optionable

SR, LNT, ATO, and CPK Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Technical Reactions to SR Trends in Macro Strategies

September 9 at 12:46 PM | news.stocktradersdaily.comN

Greenland Capital Management LP Boosts Stock Position in Spire Inc. $SR

September 7, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Spire Inc. (NYSE:SR) Receives Consensus Rating of "Moderate Buy" from Analysts

September 6, 2026 | americanbankingnews.com

Spire Inc. (NYSE:SR) Given Consensus Recommendation of "Moderate Buy" by Analysts

September 6, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Research Analysts Offer Predictions for Spire Q4 Earnings

September 6, 2026 | americanbankingnews.com

Zacks Research Issues Positive Estimate for Spire Earnings

September 5, 2026 | americanbankingnews.com

Why Is Spire (SR) Up 3.1% Since Last Earnings Report?

September 4, 2026 | zacks.com

Zacks Research Issues Optimistic Forecast for Spire Earnings

September 4, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Jupiter Topco LLC Makes New Investment in Spire Inc. $SR

September 4, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Zacks Research Weighs in on Spire's Q1 Earnings (NYSE:SR)

September 3, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Can SR's Strategic Investments Support Sustainable Long-Term Growth?

September 2, 2026 | zacks.com

Spire Inc.: Neutral Stance Maintained as Regulatory Stability Offsets MoGas Upside Uncertainties; Price Target Unchanged at $95

September 2, 2026 | tipranks.com

Spire Secures $400 Million Short-Term Term Loan Facility

September 1, 2026 | tipranks.com

Man Group plc Invests $5.31 Million in Spire Inc. $SR

August 31, 2026 | marketbeat.com

38,220 Shares in Spire Inc. $SR Acquired by BTG Pactual Asset Management US LLC

August 31, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. Makes New $1.17 Million Investment in Spire Inc. $SR

August 31, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Zacks Research Has Optimistic Outlook of Spire Q4 Earnings

August 31, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Legal & General Group Plc Purchases Shares of 280,987 Spire Inc. $SR

August 30, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Brokers Issue Forecasts for Spire's Q1 Earnings (NYSE:SR)

August 28, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Sanctuary Advisors LLC Purchases Shares of 16,943 Spire Inc. $SR

August 28, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Bank of New York Mellon Corp Purchases Shares of 588,970 Spire Inc. $SR

August 28, 2026 | marketbeat.com

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SR, LNT, ATO, and CPK Company Descriptions

Atmos Energy NYSE:ATO

$163.27 -1.54 (-0.93%)

Closing price 09/11/2026 03:58 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$163.35 +0.08 (+0.05%)

As of 09/11/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

Atmos Energy Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the regulated natural gas distribution, and pipeline and storage businesses in the United States. It operates through two segments, Distribution, and Pipeline and Storage. The Distribution segment is involved in the regulated natural gas distribution and related sales operations in eight states. This segment distributes natural gas to approximately 3.3 million residential, commercial, public authority, and industrial customers; and owned 73,689 miles of underground distribution and transmission mains. The Pipeline and Storage segment engages in the pipeline and storage operations. This segment transports natural gas for third parties and manages five underground storage facilities in Texas; provides ancillary services customary to the pipeline industry, including parking arrangements, lending, and inventory sales; and owned 5,645 miles of gas transmission lines. Atmos Energy Corporation was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Chesapeake Utilities NYSE:CPK

$130.00 +0.42 (+0.32%)

Closing price 09/11/2026 03:58 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$129.85 -0.15 (-0.12%)

As of 09/11/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

Chesapeake Utilities Corporation operates as an energy delivery company. The company operates through two segments, Regulated Energy and Unregulated Energy. The Regulated Energy segment natural gas distribution operations in central and southern Delaware, Maryland's eastern shore, and Florida; regulated natural gas transmission in the Delmarva Peninsula, Ohio, and Florida; and regulated electric distribution in northeast and northwest Florida. The Unregulated Energy segment engages in the propane operations in the Mid-Atlantic region, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida; unregulated natural gas transmission/supply operation in central and eastern Ohio; generation of electricity and steam; provision of compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and renewable natural gas transportation and pipeline solutions primarily to utilities and pipelines in the United States; and sustainable energy investments. This segment is also involved in the provision of other unregulated services, such as energy-related merchandise sale and heating, ventilation and air conditioning, and plumbing and electrical services. Chesapeake Utilities Corporation was founded in 1859 and is headquartered in Dover, Delaware.

Alliant Energy NASDAQ:LNT

$67.26 +0.01 (+0.01%)

Closing price 09/11/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$67.49 +0.23 (+0.34%)

As of 09/11/2026 07:41 PM Eastern

Alliant Energy Corporation operates as a utility holding company that provides regulated electricity and natural gas services in the United States. It operates in three segments: Utility Electric Operations, Utility Gas Operations, and Utility Other. The company, through its subsidiary, Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL), primarily generates and distributes electricity, and distributes and transports natural gas to retail customers in Iowa; sells electricity to wholesale customers in Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa; and generates and distributes steam in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Alliant Energy Corporation, through its other subsidiary, Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WPL), generates and distributes electricity, and distributes and transports natural gas to retail customers in Wisconsin; and sells electricity to wholesale customers in Wisconsin. It serves retail customers in the farming, agriculture, industrial manufacturing, chemical, packaging, and food industries, as well as wholesale customers comprising municipalities and rural electric cooperatives. In addition, the company owns and operates a short-line rail freight service in Iowa; a Mississippi River barge, rail, and truck freight terminal in Illinois; freight brokerage services; wind turbine blade recycling services; and a rail-served warehouse in Iowa. Further, it holds interests in a natural gas-fired electric generating unit near Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin; and a wind farm located in Oklahoma. The company was formerly known as Interstate Energy Corp. and changed its name to Alliant Energy Corporation in May 1999. Alliant Energy Corporation was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.

Spire NYSE:SR

$80.33 -1.14 (-1.40%)

Closing price 09/11/2026 03:58 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$80.19 -0.14 (-0.17%)

As of 09/11/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

Spire Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the purchase, retail distribution, and sale of natural gas to residential, commercial, industrial, and other end-users of natural gas in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Gas Utility, Gas Marketing, and Midstream. It is also involved in the marketing of natural gas and related services; and transportation and storage of natural gas. In addition, the company engages in the operation of propane through its propane pipeline, risk management, and other activities. The company was formerly known as The Laclede Group, Inc. and changed its name to Spire Inc. in April 2016. Spire Inc. was founded in 1857 and is based in Saint Louis, Missouri.

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