RGCO vs. SJT, FF, ZEO, HNRG, MAXN, FET, PNRG, NC, RNGR, and NRGV
Should you be buying RGC Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RGC Resources include San Juan Basin Royalty Trust (SJT), FutureFuel (FF), Zeo Energy (ZEO), Hallador Energy (HNRG), Maxeon Solar Technologies (MAXN), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), NACCO Industries (NC), Ranger Energy Services (RNGR), and Energy Vault (NRGV). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
RGC Resources (NASDAQ:RGCO) and San Juan Basin Royalty Trust (NYSE:SJT) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and community ranking.
In the previous week, San Juan Basin Royalty Trust had 2 more articles in the media than RGC Resources. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for San Juan Basin Royalty Trust and 0 mentions for RGC Resources. RGC Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat San Juan Basin Royalty Trust's score of 0.91 indicating that RGC Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
RGC Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. San Juan Basin Royalty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. RGC Resources pays out 61.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. San Juan Basin Royalty Trust pays out 64.3% 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.
San Juan Basin Royalty Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RGC Resources. San Juan Basin Royalty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RGC Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
San Juan Basin Royalty Trust has a net margin of 89.64% compared to RGC Resources' net margin of 15.82%. San Juan Basin Royalty Trust's return on equity of 715.03% beat RGC Resources' return on equity.
RGC Resources has a beta of 0.2, suggesting that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, San Juan Basin Royalty Trust has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
San Juan Basin Royalty Trust received 81 more outperform votes than RGC Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.55% of users gave San Juan Basin Royalty Trust an outperform vote while only 44.53% of users gave RGC Resources an outperform vote.
35.8% of RGC Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.4% of San Juan Basin Royalty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of RGC Resources shares are held by company 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.
Summary
San Juan Basin Royalty Trust beats RGC Resources on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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