NFE vs. NFG, UGP, NJR, OGS, SR, EE, BEPC, MGY, CPG, and VAL
Should you be buying New Fortress Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Fortress Energy include National Fuel Gas (NFG), Ultrapar Participações (UGP), New Jersey Resources (NJR), ONE Gas (OGS), Spire (SR), Excelerate Energy (EE), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), and Valaris (VAL).
National Fuel Gas (NYSE:NFG) and New Fortress Energy (NASDAQ:NFE) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
National Fuel Gas presently has a consensus price target of $61.25, indicating a potential upside of 9.34%. New Fortress Energy has a consensus price target of $38.57, indicating a potential upside of 44.25%. Given National Fuel Gas' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe New Fortress Energy is more favorable than National Fuel Gas.
National Fuel Gas has a net margin of 23.84% compared to National Fuel Gas' net margin of 22.70%. National Fuel Gas' return on equity of 36.16% beat New Fortress Energy's return on equity.
National Fuel Gas pays an annual dividend of $1.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. New Fortress Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. National Fuel Gas pays out 39.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New Fortress Energy pays out 15.1% 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. National Fuel Gas has raised its dividend for 54 consecutive years. National Fuel Gas is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, New Fortress Energy had 12 more articles in the media than National Fuel Gas. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for New Fortress Energy and 7 mentions for National Fuel Gas. New Fortress Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat National Fuel Gas' score of 0.06 indicating that National Fuel Gas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
New Fortress Energy has higher revenue and earnings than National Fuel Gas. New Fortress Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Fuel Gas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
74.0% of National Fuel Gas shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of New Fortress Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of National Fuel Gas shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.1% of New Fortress Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
National Fuel Gas received 335 more outperform votes than New Fortress Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.78% of users gave National Fuel Gas an outperform vote while only 55.50% of users gave New Fortress Energy an outperform vote.
National Fuel Gas has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Fortress Energy has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
National Fuel Gas beats New Fortress Energy on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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