NWN vs. NJR, NFG, SR, OGS, HE, KEN, VEON, SJW, TDS, and IDT
Should you be buying Northwest Natural stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northwest Natural include New Jersey Resources (NJR), National Fuel Gas (NFG), Spire (SR), ONE Gas (OGS), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), Kenon (KEN), VEON (VEON), SJW Group (SJW), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), and IDT (IDT). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Northwest Natural (NYSE:NWN) and New Jersey Resources (NYSE:NJR) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Northwest Natural pays an annual dividend of $1.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. New Jersey Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Northwest Natural pays out 75.0% 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 68.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Northwest Natural had 9 more articles in the media than New Jersey Resources. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Northwest Natural and 1 mentions for New Jersey Resources. Northwest Natural's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat New Jersey Resources' score of 0.41 indicating that Northwest Natural is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Northwest Natural presently has a consensus target price of $45.20, indicating a potential upside of 27.36%. New Jersey Resources has a consensus target price of $45.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.02%. Given Northwest Natural's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Northwest Natural is more favorable than New Jersey Resources.
New Jersey Resources received 49 more outperform votes than Northwest Natural when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.22% of users gave New Jersey Resources an outperform vote while only 52.41% of users gave Northwest Natural an outperform vote.
75.1% of Northwest Natural shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of New Jersey Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Northwest Natural 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, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
New Jersey Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Northwest Natural. Northwest Natural 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.
Northwest Natural has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% 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.
New Jersey Resources has a net margin of 13.96% compared to Northwest Natural's net margin of 7.84%. New Jersey Resources' return on equity of 11.13% beat Northwest Natural's return on equity.
Summary
New Jersey Resources beats Northwest Natural on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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