NJR vs. NFG, NWN, OGS, SR, POR, ELP, ENIC, AQN, BIPC, and IDA
Should you be buying New Jersey Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Jersey Resources include National Fuel Gas (NFG), Northwest Natural (NWN), ONE Gas (OGS), Spire (SR), Portland General Electric (POR), Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP), Enel Chile (ENIC), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), and IDACORP (IDA). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
National Fuel Gas (NYSE:NFG) and New Jersey Resources (NYSE:NJR) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
National Fuel Gas has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Jersey Resources has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
74.0% of National Fuel Gas shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of New Jersey Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of National Fuel Gas shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of New Jersey Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
National Fuel Gas presently has a consensus price target of $61.25, indicating a potential upside of 14.59%. New Jersey Resources has a consensus price target of $45.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.78%. Given New Jersey Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe National Fuel Gas is more favorable than New Jersey Resources.
National Fuel Gas pays an annual dividend of $1.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. New Jersey Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. National Fuel Gas pays out 41.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New Jersey Resources pays out 68.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. National Fuel Gas has raised its dividend for 54 consecutive years and New Jersey Resources has raised its dividend for 28 consecutive years.
National Fuel Gas received 125 more outperform votes than New Jersey Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.78% of users gave National Fuel Gas an outperform vote while only 57.22% of users gave New Jersey Resources an outperform vote.
In the previous week, New Jersey Resources had 1 more articles in the media than National Fuel Gas. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for New Jersey Resources and 5 mentions for National Fuel Gas. New Jersey Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat National Fuel Gas' score of 0.27 indicating that National Fuel Gas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
National Fuel Gas has a net margin of 21.58% compared to National Fuel Gas' net margin of 13.96%. New Jersey Resources' return on equity of 14.81% beat National Fuel Gas' return on equity.
National Fuel Gas has higher revenue and earnings than New Jersey Resources. National Fuel Gas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Jersey Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
National Fuel Gas beats New Jersey Resources on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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