Comparing NextDecade (NEXT) and The Competition

NextDecade (NASDAQ:NEXT) is one of 1,052 publicly-traded companies in the “Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare NextDecade to similar companies based on the strength of its earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for NextDecade and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NextDecade	1	4	1	1	2.29
NextDecade Competitors	5801	26391	39916	2263	2.52

NextDecade currently has a consensus target price of $8.10, suggesting a potential upside of 20.54%. As a group, “Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels” companies have a potential upside of 32.14%. Given NextDecade’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NextDecade has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Risk & Volatility

NextDecade has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextDecade’s peers have a beta of -3.72, indicating that their average stock price is 472% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares NextDecade and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NextDecade	N/A	-27.94%	-5.19%
NextDecade Competitors	-470.40%	9.83%	5.94%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

66.7% of NextDecade shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.6% of shares of all “Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels” companies are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of NextDecade shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.3% of shares of all “Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares NextDecade and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NextDecade	N/A	-$306.43 million	-4.94
NextDecade Competitors	$10.60 billion	$5.51 billion	0.76

NextDecade’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than NextDecade. NextDecade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

NextDecade peers beat NextDecade on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

About NextDecade

NextDecade Corp. is a development company.