UGP vs. EBR, LNT, WES, EVRG, AGR, SBS, WTRG, ELPC, BEP, and DTM
Should you be buying Ultrapar Participações stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ultrapar Participações include Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), Alliant Energy (LNT), Western Midstream Partners (WES), Evergy (EVRG), Avangrid (AGR), Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP (SBS), Essential Utilities (WTRG), Companhia Paranaense de Energia (ELPC), Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP), and DT Midstream (DTM). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
Ultrapar Participações (NYSE:UGP) and Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (NYSE:EBR) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
Ultrapar Participações has a beta of 1.61, meaning that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ultrapar Participações pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Ultrapar Participações pays out 16.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ultrapar Participações.
In the previous week, Ultrapar Participações had 4 more articles in the media than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Ultrapar Participações and 3 mentions for Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás. Ultrapar Participações' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' score of -0.08 indicating that Ultrapar Participações is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ultrapar Participações presently has a consensus target price of $4.25, suggesting a potential upside of 2.66%. Given Ultrapar Participações' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Ultrapar Participações is more favorable than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás.
3.6% of Ultrapar Participações shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.5% of Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Ultrapar Participações shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ultrapar Participações received 159 more outperform votes than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.39% of users gave Ultrapar Participações an outperform vote while only 58.24% of users gave Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás an outperform vote.
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a net margin of 13.37% compared to Ultrapar Participações' net margin of 2.21%. Ultrapar Participações' return on equity of 20.24% beat Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' return on equity.
Summary
Ultrapar Participações beats Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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