OGS vs. SR, NJR, NFG, NWN, OTTR, BKH, ALE, PNM, BIPC, and ELP
Should you be buying ONE Gas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ONE Gas include Spire (SR), New Jersey Resources (NJR), National Fuel Gas (NFG), Northwest Natural (NWN), Otter Tail (OTTR), Black Hills (BKH), ALLETE (ALE), PNM Resources (PNM), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), and Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
ONE Gas (NYSE:OGS) and Spire (NYSE:SR) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
88.7% of ONE Gas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Spire shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of ONE Gas shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Spire shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ONE Gas has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spire has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Spire received 186 more outperform votes than ONE Gas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.47% of users gave Spire an outperform vote while only 49.55% of users gave ONE Gas an outperform vote.
ONE Gas has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Spire. ONE Gas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ONE Gas presently has a consensus price target of $64.56, indicating a potential downside of 0.57%. Spire has a consensus price target of $62.25, indicating a potential upside of 0.34%. Given Spire's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Spire is more favorable than ONE Gas.
ONE Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Spire pays an annual dividend of $3.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. ONE Gas pays out 63.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spire pays out 81.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
ONE Gas has a net margin of 9.75% compared to Spire's net margin of 8.11%. ONE Gas' return on equity of 8.63% beat Spire's return on equity.
In the previous week, Spire had 6 more articles in the media than ONE Gas. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Spire and 6 mentions for ONE Gas. ONE Gas' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Spire's score of 0.36 indicating that ONE Gas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
ONE Gas and Spire tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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