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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Stocks - Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
NWN Northwest Natural	$36.96 +1.0%	$36.70	$34.95 ▼ $48.37	$1.41B	0.57	340,242 shs	29,700 shs
SJI South Jersey Industries	$36.09	$35.82	$23.14 ▼ $36.13	$4.42B	0.59	5.78 million shs	18.60 million shs
SLNG Stabilis Solutions	$4.07 -1.2%	$4.16	$3.01 ▼ $6.40	$75.62M	0.8	4,213 shs	3,564 shs
SR Spire	$59.89 +0.8%	$59.71	$53.77 ▼ $70.60	$3.29B	0.51	500,195 shs	39,861 shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
NWN Northwest Natural	+2.01%	+1.41%	+1.33%	-3.74%	-23.18%
SJI South Jersey Industries	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
SLNG Stabilis Solutions	-1.21%	-0.25%	+2.26%	-0.25%	+23.33%
SR Spire	+2.06%	+1.21%	+0.22%	+1.04%	-15.08%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
NWN Northwest Natural	4.3013 of 5 stars	2.0	5.0	4.2	0.0	3.9	1.7	3.1
SJI South Jersey Industries	0.4908 of 5 stars	0.0	0.0	2.5	0.0	0.6	1.7	1.9
SLNG Stabilis Solutions	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
SR Spire	2.5275 of 5 stars	1.1	4.0	4.2	0.0	1.9	2.5	1.9

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
NWN Northwest Natural	2.00	Hold	$45.20	22.29% Upside
SJI South Jersey Industries	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
SLNG Stabilis Solutions	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
SR Spire	2.14	Hold	$62.25	3.94% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest NWN, SJI, SLNG, 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
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

(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
NWN Northwest Natural	$1.20B	1.17	$6.23 per share	5.93	$34.91 per share	1.06
SJI South Jersey Industries	$1.99B	2.22	$3.47 per share	10.41	$17.78 per share	2.03
SLNG Stabilis Solutions	$73.11M	1.03	$0.43 per share	9.56	$3.33 per share	1.22
SR Spire	$2.67B	1.23	$9.45 per share	6.34	$50.86 per share	1.18

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
NWN Northwest Natural	$93.87M	$2.60	14.22	12.92	N/A	7.84%	7.52%	2.01%	5/6/2024 (Confirmed)
SJI South Jersey Industries	$88.09M	$1.93	18.70	20.05	N/A	5.99%	9.30%	2.57%	N/A
SLNG Stabilis Solutions	$120K	$0.01	407.00	∞	N/A	0.17%	0.21%	0.15%	5/8/2024 (Estimated)
SR Spire	$217.50M	$3.71	16.14	13.13	2.68	8.11%	8.27%	2.20%	5/1/2024 (Confirmed)

Latest NWN, SJI, SLNG, and SR Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
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
3/6/2024	Q4 2023	SLNG Stabilis Solutions	N/A	$0.08	+$0.08	$0.08	N/A	$18.05 million
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
NWN Northwest Natural	$1.95	5.28%	+0.52%	75.00%	69 Years
SJI South Jersey Industries	$1.24	3.44%	N/A	64.25%	N/A
SLNG Stabilis Solutions	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
SR Spire	$3.02	5.04%	+5.01%	81.40%	21 Years

Latest NWN, SJI, SLNG, 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

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
NWN Northwest Natural	1.11	0.86	0.70
SJI South Jersey Industries	1.73	0.70	0.59
SLNG Stabilis Solutions	0.13	1.28	1.26
SR Spire	1.16	0.55	0.43

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
NWN Northwest Natural	75.13%
SJI South Jersey Industries	83.57%
SLNG Stabilis Solutions	3.81%
SR Spire	87.36%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
NWN Northwest Natural	0.95%
SJI South Jersey Industries	0.53%
SLNG Stabilis Solutions	74.90%
SR Spire	2.86%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
NWN Northwest Natural	1,380	38.03 million	37.67 million	Optionable
SJI South Jersey Industries	1,173	122.41 million	121.76 million	Optionable
SLNG Stabilis Solutions	104	18.58 million	4.67 million	Not Optionable
SR Spire	3,589	54.98 million	53.41 million	Optionable

NWN, SJI, SLNG, and SR Headlines

Source	Headline
	Zacks Research Analysts Cut Earnings Estimates for Spire Inc. (NYSE:SR) marketbeat.com - April 19 at 8:32 AM
	Zacks Research Equities Analysts Raise Earnings Estimates for Spire Inc. (NYSE:SR) americanbankingnews.com - April 19 at 2:16 AM
	Q2 2024 EPS Estimates for Spire Inc. Boosted by Analyst (NYSE:SR) marketbeat.com - April 18 at 5:59 AM
	Spire (NYSE:SR) Given Sector Perform Rating at Royal Bank of Canada americanbankingnews.com - April 17 at 4:58 AM
	Brokerages Set Spire Inc. (NYSE:SR) PT at $62.25 americanbankingnews.com - April 17 at 3:06 AM
	Smoke Pours From Iconic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Building (Credit: Albert Søgaard Thomsen via Storyful) fox8.com - April 16 at 10:36 AM
	Spire to host FY24 second quarter earnings conference call on May 1 finance.yahoo.com - April 16 at 10:36 AM
	Spire (NYSE:SR) Stock Rating Reaffirmed by Royal Bank of Canada marketbeat.com - April 16 at 9:12 AM
	New York State Teachers Retirement System Trims Position in Spire Inc. (NYSE:SR) marketbeat.com - April 15 at 5:08 AM
	Upstate restaurant ‘lowers prices in this economy’ msn.com - April 14 at 9:43 AM
	Caruth fastest in practice, but Sanchez lands on the pole at Texas speedwaydigest.com - April 14 at 9:43 AM
	How much did that house sell for? Deed transfers in Ocala/Marion: Feb. 19-25, 2024 msn.com - April 14 at 9:43 AM
	UBS Group Begins Coverage on Spire (NYSE:SR) americanbankingnews.com - April 14 at 3:26 AM
	Spire Inc. (NYSE:SR) Receives Average Recommendation of "Hold" from Analysts americanbankingnews.com - April 14 at 2:42 AM
	Spire Inc. (NYSE:SR) Receives Consensus Recommendation of "Hold" from Analysts marketbeat.com - April 14 at 2:42 AM
	Cursed Spire kotaku.com - April 13 at 7:13 PM
	Spire (SR) to Gain From Investments and Expanding Customer Base zacks.com - April 12 at 9:55 AM
	Spire (NYSE:SR) Now Covered by Analysts at UBS Group marketbeat.com - April 12 at 8:23 AM
	Iowa Will Soon Be Home To One of These HUGE Temples khak.com - April 11 at 8:05 PM
	Spire Inc. offers tips during "Safe Digging Month" kq2.com - April 8 at 8:59 PM
	Spire Inc. (NYSE:SR) Stake Boosted by Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. marketbeat.com - April 6 at 2:23 PM
	Assenagon Asset Management S.A. Buys Shares of 34,170 Spire Inc. (NYSE:SR) marketbeat.com - April 4 at 4:39 AM
	Spire taps Birmingham executive for board position bizjournals.com - April 2 at 12:36 AM
	Spire Elects Sheri S. Cook to Board of Directors prnewswire.com - April 1 at 4:05 PM

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Company Descriptions

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.

South Jersey Industries

NYSE:SJI

South Jersey Industries, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the provision of energy-related products and services. It operates through the following segments: SJG Utility Operations, ETG Utility Operations, ELK Utility Operations, Wholesale Energy Operations, Retail Electric Operations, Appliance Service Operations, Midstream, and Corporate & Services. The SJG Utility Operations segment consists of natural gas distribution to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in southern New Jersey. The ETG Utility Operations segment consists of natural gas distribution to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in northern and central New Jersey. The ELK Utility Operations segment consists of natural gas distribution to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Maryland. The Wholesale Energy Operations segment includes the activities of South Jersey Resources Group and South Jersey Exploration. The Retail Electric Operations segment consists of electricity acquisition and transportation to commercial, industrial, and residential customers. The Appliance Service Operations segment consists of South Jersey Energy Service Plus, which services residential

Stabilis Solutions

NASDAQ:SLNG

Stabilis Solutions, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, an energy transition company, provides clean energy production, storage, transportation, and fueling solutions primarily using liquefied natural gas (LNG) to various end markets in North America. The company offers LNG solutions to customers in aerospace, agriculture, energy, industrial, marine bunkering, mining, pipeline, remote power, and utility markets. It also provides engineering and field support services, as well as rents cryogenic equipment. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Stabilis Solutions, Inc. is a subsidiary of LNG Investment Company LLC.

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.

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