Critical Comparison: Excelerate Energy (NYSE:EE) & YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF)

Excelerate Energy (NYSE:EE) and YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF) are both energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Excelerate Energy and YPF Sociedad Anónima, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Excelerate Energy	0	5	5	3	2.85
YPF Sociedad Anónima	0	3	3	0	2.50

Excelerate Energy currently has a consensus target price of $43.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.97%. YPF Sociedad Anónima has a consensus target price of $60.33, indicating a potential upside of 9.92%. Given Excelerate Energy’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Excelerate Energy is more favorable than YPF Sociedad Anónima.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

21.8% of Excelerate Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.1% of YPF Sociedad Anónima shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Excelerate Energy shares are held 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.

Risk & Volatility

Excelerate Energy has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, YPF Sociedad Anónima has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Excelerate Energy and YPF Sociedad Anónima’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Excelerate Energy	3.23%	2.24%	1.22%
YPF Sociedad Anónima	3.60%	10.86%	4.20%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Excelerate Energy and YPF Sociedad Anónima”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Excelerate Energy	$1.23 billion	3.31	$39.20 million	$1.45	24.72
YPF Sociedad Anónima	$18.45 billion	1.17	-$826.00 million	$1.90	28.89

Excelerate Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than YPF Sociedad Anónima. Excelerate Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than YPF Sociedad Anónima, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Excelerate Energy beats YPF Sociedad Anónima on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Excelerate Energy

Excelerate Energy, Inc. provides flexible liquefied natural gas (LNG) solutions worldwide. The company offers regasification services, including floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs), infrastructure development, and LNG and natural gas supply, procurement, and distribution services; LNG terminal services; and natural gas supply to-power projects. Excelerate Energy, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas. Excelerate Energy, Inc. is a subsidiary of Excelerate Energy Holdings, LLC.

About YPF Sociedad Anónima

YPF Sociedad Anónima, an energy company, engages in the oil and gas upstream and downstream activities in Argentina. Its upstream operations include the exploration, exploitation, and production of crude oil, and natural gas. The company’s downstream operations include petrochemical production and crude oil refining; transportation and distribution refined and petrochemical products; commercialization of crude oil, petrochemical products, and specialties. Its gas and power operations include transportation, commercialization, and distribution of natural gas; operation of regasification terminals; conditioning, processing, and separation of natural gas; and power generation. The company had interests in oil and gas fields. It also had a retail distribution network and retail service stations. In addition, the company owns and operates refineries, as well as maintains terminal facilities Argentine ports. Further, it participates in power generation plants; offers diesel, fertilizers, lubricants, phytosanitary products, and ensiling bags; and supplies diesel, gasoline, fuel oil, coal, asphalts, paraffin, and sulfur, CO2, decanted oil, and aromatic extract. The company was incorporated in 1977 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.