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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

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Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
EE Excelerate Energy	$15.54 +1.2%	$15.18	$13.38 ▼ $22.42	$1.68B	1.41	182,714 shs	165,211 shs
NWN Northwest Natural	$36.58 +1.9%	$36.70	$34.95 ▼ $48.37	$1.39B	0.57	255,497 shs	187,601 shs
SR Spire	$59.40 +2.1%	$59.71	$53.77 ▼ $70.60	$3.27B	0.51	303,303 shs	371,024 shs
UGP Ultrapar Participações	$5.08 -1.0%	$5.77	$2.74 ▼ $6.34	$5.67B	1.59	1.47 million shs	2,040 shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
EE Excelerate Energy	+1.17%	-1.02%	-2.26%	+4.16%	-29.75%
NWN Northwest Natural	+2.01%	+1.41%	+1.33%	-3.74%	-23.18%
SR Spire	+2.06%	+1.21%	+0.22%	+1.04%	-15.08%
UGP Ultrapar Participações	-0.97%	-7.30%	-10.88%	-9.45%	+79.51%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
EE Excelerate Energy	3.8966 of 5 stars	3.3	5.0	1.7	3.3	0.0	2.5
NWN Northwest Natural	4.2958 of 5 stars	2.0	5.0	4.2	3.9	1.7	3.1
SR Spire	2.5213 of 5 stars	1.1	4.0	4.2	1.9	2.5	1.9
UGP Ultrapar Participações	1.2841 of 5 stars	0.9	5.0	2.5	3.3	0.0	1.3

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
EE Excelerate Energy	2.60	Moderate Buy	$23.00	48.01% Upside
NWN Northwest Natural	2.00	Hold	$45.20	23.56% Upside
SR Spire	2.14	Hold	$62.25	4.80% Upside
UGP Ultrapar Participações	1.80	Reduce	$4.37	-14.04% Downside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest EE, NWN, UGP, and SR Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/16/2024	SR Spire	Royal Bank of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Sector Perform ➝ Sector Perform	$65.00
4/12/2024	SR Spire	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Buy	$68.00
4/2/2024	UGP Ultrapar Participações	Itau BBA Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Outperform ➝ Market Perform
3/20/2024	UGP Ultrapar Participações	The Goldman Sachs Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$5.30 ➝ $6.00
2/26/2024	EE Excelerate Energy	Northland Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Outperform	$23.00
2/13/2024	EE Excelerate Energy	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$30.00 ➝ $19.00
1/31/2024	NWN Northwest Natural	Janney Montgomery Scott Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Neutral	$39.00
1/22/2024	SR Spire	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$66.00 ➝ $64.00
1/19/2024	EE Excelerate Energy	Raymond James Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$26.00 ➝ $24.00

(Data available from 4/19/2021 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
EE Excelerate Energy	$1.16B	1.45	$1.55 per share	10.03	$16.71 per share	0.93
NWN Northwest Natural	$1.20B	1.16	$6.17 per share	5.93	$34.91 per share	1.05
SR Spire	$2.67B	1.22	$9.37 per share	6.34	$50.86 per share	1.17
UGP Ultrapar Participações	$25.25B	0.22	$0.75 per share	6.80	$2.52 per share	2.02

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
EE Excelerate Energy	$30.41M	$1.03	15.09	13.40	N/A	2.62%	1.83%	1.11%	5/8/2024 (Confirmed)
NWN Northwest Natural	$93.87M	$2.60	14.07	12.79	N/A	7.84%	7.52%	2.01%	5/6/2024 (Confirmed)
SR Spire	$217.50M	$3.71	16.01	13.03	2.68	8.11%	8.27%	2.20%	5/1/2024 (Confirmed)
UGP Ultrapar Participações	$488.69M	$0.45	11.29	26.74	3.20	1.95%	18.86%	6.90%	5/1/2024 (Estimated)

Latest EE, NWN, UGP, and SR Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/8/2024	N/A	EE Excelerate Energy	$0.20	N/A	-$0.20	N/A	N/A	N/A
5/6/2024	N/A	NWN Northwest Natural	$1.86	N/A	-$1.86	N/A	N/A	N/A
5/1/2024	N/A	SR Spire	$3.84	N/A	-$3.84	N/A	N/A	N/A
2/28/2024	Q4 2023	EE Excelerate Energy	$0.17	$0.14	-$0.03	$0.14	$265.31 million	$240.06 million
2/28/2024	Q4 2023	UGP Ultrapar Participações	N/A	$0.20	+$0.20	$0.20	N/A	$6.75 billion
2/23/2024	12/31/2023	NWN Northwest Natural	$1.31	$1.21	-$0.10	$1.21	$368.78 million	$355.71 million
2/1/2024	Q1 2024	SR Spire	$1.37	$1.47	+$0.10	$1.42	$688.88 million	$756.60 million

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
EE Excelerate Energy	$0.10	0.64%	-49.90%	9.71%	N/A
NWN Northwest Natural	$1.95	5.33%	+0.52%	75.00%	69 Years
SR Spire	$3.02	5.08%	+5.01%	81.40%	21 Years
UGP Ultrapar Participações	$0.14	2.76%	+10.88%	31.11%	1 Years

Latest EE, NWN, UGP, and SR Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
4/11/2024	NWN Northwest Natural	Quarterly	$0.4880	5.4%	4/29/2024	4/30/2024	5/15/2024
1/26/2024	SR Spire	Quarterly	$0.7550	5.19%	3/8/2024	3/11/2024	4/2/2024
2/22/2024	EE Excelerate Energy	Quarterly	$0.0250	0.7%	3/12/2024	3/13/2024	3/28/2024
2/29/2024	UGP Ultrapar Participações	semi-annual	$0.0723	2%	3/8/2024	3/11/2024	3/25/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
EE Excelerate Energy	0.38	3.43	3.42
NWN Northwest Natural	1.11	0.86	0.70
SR Spire	1.16	0.55	0.43
UGP Ultrapar Participações	0.78	1.66	1.28

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
EE Excelerate Energy	21.79%
NWN Northwest Natural	75.13%
SR Spire	87.36%
UGP Ultrapar Participações	3.58%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
EE Excelerate Energy	1.88%
NWN Northwest Natural	0.95%
SR Spire	2.86%
UGP Ultrapar Participações	1.80%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
EE Excelerate Energy	915	108.29 million	106.25 million	Optionable
NWN Northwest Natural	1,380	38.03 million	37.67 million	Optionable
SR Spire	3,589	54.98 million	53.41 million	Optionable
UGP Ultrapar Participações	9,778	1.12 billion	1.10 billion	Optionable

EE, NWN, UGP, and SR Headlines

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	Ultrapar Participacoes S.A. (UGP) Stock Moves -0.95%: What You Should Know finance.yahoo.com - April 15 at 10:35 PM
	Best Growth Stocks to Buy for April 15th zacks.com - April 15 at 10:10 AM
	Ultrapar Participações S.A. (NYSE:UGP) Sees Significant Drop in Short Interest marketbeat.com - April 12 at 11:13 PM
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	Is Ultrapar Participacoes (UGP) a Great Value Stock Right Now? zacks.com - April 4 at 10:41 AM
	Best Growth Stocks to Buy for April 4th zacks.com - April 4 at 6:26 AM
	UGP or WMB: Which Is the Better Value Stock Right Now? zacks.com - April 3 at 12:46 PM
	Ultrapar (UGPA3): BBA eleva preço-alvo da ação, mas mantém recomendação neutra spacemoney.com.br - April 2 at 2:43 PM
	Ultrapar (UGPA3) tem preço elevado, mas recomendação reduzida; ação cai 3% infomoney.com.br - April 2 at 2:43 PM
	Ultrapar Participações (NYSE:UGP) Downgraded by Itau BBA Securities marketbeat.com - April 2 at 8:30 AM
	Best Growth Stocks to Buy for April 2nd zacks.com - April 2 at 8:11 AM
	Ultrapar: The Peak Is Here seekingalpha.com - April 1 at 6:31 PM
	Hidrovias do Brasil: Ultrapar Logística eleva fatia e passa a deter 10,02% do total de ações ON da companhia msn.com - March 29 at 7:35 AM
	Hidrovias do Brasil (HBSA3): Ultrapar eleva fatia para 10% spacemoney.com.br - March 28 at 11:14 AM
	Best Growth Stocks to Buy for March 28th zacks.com - March 28 at 6:06 AM
	Ultrapar (UGPA3) e Hidrovias do Brasil (HBSA3): após negócio milionário, é hora de investir nas ações? seudinheiro.com - March 27 at 2:00 PM
	Best Growth Stocks to Buy for March 26th zacks.com - March 26 at 5:31 AM
	Hidrovias do Brasil fecha em alta de 14,8%, após Ultrapar anunciar compra de participação valor.globo.com - March 25 at 6:06 PM
	Ultrapar (UGPA3): Compra de participação na Hidrovias do Brasil (HBSA3) é vista com bons olhos, mas BTG ainda tem uma pergunta moneytimes.com.br - March 25 at 6:06 PM
	Hidrovias do Brasil (HBSA3) dispara 12%, após acordo com Ultrapar (UGPA3) e BTG recomenda compra spacemoney.com.br - March 25 at 1:05 PM
	Ultrapar (UGPA3); Vivara (VIVA3); Suzano (SUZB3): Veja o destsaque das empresas valorinveste.globo.com - March 25 at 1:05 PM

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Company Descriptions

Excelerate Energy

NYSE:EE

Excelerate Energy, Inc. provides flexible liquefied natural gas (LNG) solutions worldwide. The company offers regasification services, including floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs), infrastructure development, and LNG and natural gas supply, procurement, and distribution services; LNG terminal services; and natural gas supply to-power projects. Excelerate Energy, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas. Excelerate Energy, Inc. is a subsidiary of Excelerate Energy Holdings, LLC.

Northwest Natural

NYSE:NWN

Northwest Natural Holding Company, through its subsidiary, Northwest Natural Gas Company, provides regulated natural gas distribution services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the United States. The company operates a mist gas storage facility contracted to other utilities, third-party marketers, and electric generators; offers natural gas asset management services; and operates an appliance retail center. It also engages in gas storage, water and wastewater, non-regulated renewable natural gas, and other investment businesses. In addition, the company provides natural gas service in Oregon and southwest Washington; and water and wastewater connections. Northwest Natural Holding Company was founded in 1859 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Spire

NYSE:SR

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.

Ultrapar Participações

NYSE:UGP

Ultrapar Participações S.A., through its subsidiaries, operates in the energy and infrastructure business in Brazil. The company distributes liquefied petroleum gas to residential, commercial, and industrial consumers, in addition to renewable electricity and compressed natural gas. It also operates in the distribution and marketing of gasoline, ethanol, diesel, fuel oil, kerosene, natural gas for vehicles, and lubricants; and holds AmPm convenience stores and provides JetOil lubricant services. In addition, the company operates liquid bulk storage terminals. Further, it offers digital payments services, combining the abastece aí app and the loyalty program Km de Vantagens. It also exports its products and services to customers in Europe, Singapore, the United States, Canada, other Latin American countries, and internationally. The company was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

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