RGCO vs. EDN, AMPS, NNE, SMLP, GWRS, PCYO, SUUN, CGBS, SPRU, and OPTT
Should you be buying RGC Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RGC Resources include Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN), Altus Power (AMPS), Nano Nuclear Energy (NNE), Summit Midstream Partners (SMLP), Global Water Resources (GWRS), Pure Cycle (PCYO), SolarBank (SUUN), Crown LNG (CGBS), Spruce Power (SPRU), and Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:EDN) and RGC Resources (NASDAQ:RGCO) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
1.6% of Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.8% of RGC Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.0% of RGC Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima received 128 more outperform votes than RGC Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.27% of users gave Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima an outperform vote while only 44.53% of users gave RGC Resources an outperform vote.
Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima has higher revenue and earnings than RGC Resources. Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RGC Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
RGC Resources has a net margin of 15.82% compared to RGC Resources' net margin of 14.11%. RGC Resources' return on equity of 25.90% beat Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima's return on equity.
In the previous week, RGC Resources had 3 more articles in the media than Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for RGC Resources and 1 mentions for Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima. Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat RGC Resources' score of -1.00 indicating that RGC Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RGC Resources has a beta of 0.16, suggesting that its share price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima beats RGC Resources on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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