SR vs. OGS, NJR, NFG, NWN, PNM, ALE, OTTR, NWE, BKH, and MYRG
Should you be buying Spire stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spire include ONE Gas (OGS), New Jersey Resources (NJR), National Fuel Gas (NFG), Northwest Natural (NWN), PNM Resources (PNM), ALLETE (ALE), Otter Tail (OTTR), NorthWestern Energy Group (NWE), Black Hills (BKH), and MYR Group (MYRG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Spire (NYSE:SR) and ONE Gas (NYSE:OGS) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Spire currently has a consensus target price of $62.25, suggesting a potential upside of 6.63%. ONE Gas has a consensus target price of $64.44, suggesting a potential upside of 3.98%. Given Spire's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Spire is more favorable than ONE Gas.
Spire received 186 more outperform votes than ONE Gas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.56% of users gave Spire an outperform vote while only 49.66% of users gave ONE Gas an outperform vote.
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 and Spire both had 8 articles in the media. ONE Gas' average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Spire's score of 0.48 indicating that ONE Gas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
87.4% of Spire shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of ONE Gas shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of Spire shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of ONE Gas shares are held 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.
Spire pays an annual dividend of $3.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. ONE Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. 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 pays out 63.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
ONE Gas has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Spire has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ONE Gas has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ONE Gas beats Spire on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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