UGP vs. NFE, EE, SUN, SM, ETRN, KNTK, CPG, NXT, DTM, and MGY
Should you be buying Ultrapar Participações stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ultrapar Participações include New Fortress Energy (NFE), Excelerate Energy (EE), Sunoco (SUN), SM Energy (SM), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), Kinetik (KNTK), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), Nextracker (NXT), DT Midstream (DTM), and Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
New Fortress Energy (NASDAQ:NFE) and Ultrapar Participações (NYSE:UGP) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
New Fortress Energy has a net margin of 22.70% compared to New Fortress Energy's net margin of 1.95%. Ultrapar Participações' return on equity of 36.16% beat New Fortress Energy's return on equity.
New Fortress Energy has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ultrapar Participações has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, New Fortress Energy had 11 more articles in the media than Ultrapar Participações. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for New Fortress Energy and 0 mentions for Ultrapar Participações. Ultrapar Participações' average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat New Fortress Energy's score of 0.00 indicating that New Fortress Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
58.6% of New Fortress Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.6% of Ultrapar Participações shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.1% of New Fortress Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Ultrapar Participações shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ultrapar Participações received 205 more outperform votes than New Fortress Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.64% of users gave Ultrapar Participações an outperform vote while only 55.56% of users gave New Fortress Energy an outperform vote.
New Fortress Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ultrapar Participações. New Fortress Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ultrapar Participações, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
New Fortress Energy presently has a consensus price target of $39.29, suggesting a potential upside of 47.36%. Ultrapar Participações has a consensus price target of $4.37, suggesting a potential downside of 17.77%. Given Ultrapar Participações' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe New Fortress Energy is more favorable than Ultrapar Participações.
New Fortress Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Ultrapar Participações pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. New Fortress Energy pays out 15.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ultrapar Participações pays out 31.1% 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. Ultrapar Participações has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Ultrapar Participações is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
New Fortress Energy beats Ultrapar Participações on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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