OGS vs. BIPC, BKH, OTTR, ALE, SR, ELP, PNM, ENIC, NWE, and AQN
Should you be buying ONE Gas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ONE Gas include Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), Black Hills (BKH), Otter Tail (OTTR), ALLETE (ALE), Spire (SR), Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP), PNM Resources (PNM), Enel Chile (ENIC), NorthWestern Energy Group (NWE), and Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
ONE Gas (NYSE:OGS) and Brookfield Infrastructure (NASDAQ:BIPC) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
ONE Gas received 195 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.42% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 49.55% of users gave ONE Gas an outperform vote.
In the previous week, ONE Gas had 7 more articles in the media than Brookfield Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for ONE Gas and 3 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure. Brookfield Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat ONE Gas' score of 0.53 indicating that Brookfield Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ONE Gas currently has a consensus price target of $64.56, indicating a potential downside of 1.02%. Brookfield Infrastructure has a consensus price target of $42.00, indicating a potential upside of 26.05%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Brookfield Infrastructure is more favorable than ONE Gas.
ONE Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Brookfield Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $1.62 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. Brookfield Infrastructure pays out 112.5% 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 Brookfield Infrastructure's net margin of 0.00%. ONE Gas' return on equity of 8.63% beat Brookfield Infrastructure's return on equity.
ONE Gas has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brookfield Infrastructure. ONE Gas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.7% of ONE Gas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Brookfield Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of ONE Gas shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
ONE Gas has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Infrastructure has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ONE Gas beats Brookfield Infrastructure on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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