Reviewing Excelerate Energy (NYSE:EE) and Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras (NYSE:PBR)

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

Profitability

This table compares Excelerate Energy and Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras’ 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%
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras	24.52%	30.61%	10.94%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Excelerate Energy and Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Excelerate Energy	0	5	5	3	2.85
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras	0	2	5	0	2.71

Excelerate Energy presently has a consensus target price of $44.56, suggesting a potential upside of 29.60%. Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras has a consensus target price of $21.16, suggesting a potential downside of 13.26%. Given Excelerate Energy’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Excelerate Energy is more favorable than Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Excelerate Energy and Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Excelerate Energy	$1.23 billion	3.17	$39.20 million	$1.45	23.71
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras	$89.19 billion	1.76	$19.63 billion	$3.96	6.16

Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras has higher revenue and earnings than Excelerate Energy. Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Excelerate Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

21.8% of Excelerate Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Excelerate Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Dividends

Excelerate Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras pays an annual dividend of $0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Excelerate Energy pays out 24.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras pays out 10.9% 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. Excelerate Energy has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Volatility and Risk

Excelerate Energy has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Excelerate Energy beats Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras on 9 of the 17 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 Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras explores, produces, and sells oil and gas in Brazil and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Exploration and Production; Refining, Transportation and Marketing; and Gas and Power. The Exploration and Production segment explores, develops, and produces crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas primarily for supplies to the domestic refineries. The Refining, Transportation and Marketing segment engages in the refining, logistics, transport, acquisition, and exports of crude oil; and production of fertilizers, as well as holding interests in petrochemical companies. The Gas and Power segment is involved in the logistic and trading of natural gas and electricity; transportation and trading of LNG; generation of electricity through thermoelectric power plants; renewable energy businesses; low carbon services; and natural gas processing business, as well as production of biodiesel and its co-products. The company also engages in prospecting, drilling, refining, processing, trading, and transporting crude oil from producing onshore and offshore oil fields, and shale or other rocks, as well as oil products, natural gas, and other liquid hydrocarbons. In addition, it engages in research, development, production, transport, distribution, and trading of energy. Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras was incorporated in 1953 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.