NJR vs. SWX, NFG, UGI, CPK, NWN, OKE, ATO, NFE, UGP, and OGS
Should you be buying New Jersey Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Jersey Resources include Southwest Gas (SWX), National Fuel Gas (NFG), UGI (UGI), Chesapeake Utilities (CPK), Northwest Natural (NWN), ONEOK (OKE), Atmos Energy (ATO), New Fortress Energy (NFE), Ultrapar Participações (UGP), and ONE Gas (OGS).
Southwest Gas (NYSE:SWX) and New Jersey Resources (NYSE:NJR) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
In the previous week, New Jersey Resources had 2 more articles in the media than Southwest Gas. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for New Jersey Resources and 3 mentions for Southwest Gas. New Jersey Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Southwest Gas' score of 0.74 indicating that Southwest Gas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
92.8% of Southwest Gas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of New Jersey Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Southwest Gas shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of New Jersey Resources shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Southwest Gas presently has a consensus price target of $75.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.19%. New Jersey Resources has a consensus price target of $45.00, indicating a potential downside of 4.26%. Given New Jersey Resources' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Southwest Gas is more favorable than New Jersey Resources.
New Jersey Resources has a net margin of 14.46% compared to New Jersey Resources' net margin of 3.56%. Southwest Gas' return on equity of 12.16% beat New Jersey Resources' return on equity.
New Jersey Resources received 46 more outperform votes than Southwest Gas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.09% of users gave New Jersey Resources an outperform vote while only 51.49% of users gave Southwest Gas an outperform vote.
Southwest Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. New Jersey Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Southwest Gas pays out 92.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. New Jersey Resources pays out 66.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Southwest Gas has raised its dividend for 17 consecutive years and New Jersey Resources has raised its dividend for 28 consecutive years. New Jersey Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Southwest Gas has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Jersey Resources has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
New Jersey Resources has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Southwest Gas. New Jersey Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southwest Gas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
New Jersey Resources beats Southwest Gas on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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