ONE Gas (OGS) Competitors

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (NYSE:EBR) and ONE Gas (NYSE:OGS) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.

Is EBR or OGS a better dividend stock?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. ONE Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás pays out 36.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ONE Gas pays out 64.7% 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. ONE Gas has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has better valuation & earnings, EBR or OGS?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has higher revenue and earnings than ONE Gas. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ONE Gas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	$41.88B	0.40	$977.82M	$0.76	9.80
ONE Gas	$2.26B	1.98	$231.23M	$4.14	18.02

Do analysts recommend EBR or OGS?

ONE Gas has a consensus price target of $77.36, suggesting a potential upside of 3.69%. Given ONE Gas' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ONE Gas is more favorable than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	4.00
ONE Gas	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.43

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of EBR or OGS?

2.6% of Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of ONE Gas shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of ONE Gas shares are owned by 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.

Which has more risk & volatility, EBR or OGS?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ONE Gas has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in EBR or OGS?

ONE Gas received 62 more outperform votes than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.63% of users gave Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás an outperform vote while only 47.17% of users gave ONE Gas an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	Outperform Votes 163 58.63%	Underperform Votes 115 41.37%
ONE Gas	Outperform Votes 225 47.17%	Underperform Votes 252 52.83%

Is EBR or OGS more profitable?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a net margin of 26.50% compared to ONE Gas' net margin of 10.70%. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' return on equity of 9.00% beat ONE Gas' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	26.50%	9.00%	3.82%
ONE Gas	10.70%	7.70%	2.78%

Does the media refer more to EBR or OGS?

In the previous week, ONE Gas had 4 more articles in the media than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for ONE Gas and 3 mentions for Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat ONE Gas' score of 0.81 indicating that Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
ONE Gas	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás and ONE Gas tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.