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Atmos Energy Has Attractive Growth Opportunities Over Next Five Years

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Business Strategy and Outlook

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Favorable rate regulation and large infrastructure investment opportunities have driven strong earnings growth and steady dividend increases for Atmos Energy. We expect Atmos to invest $15 billion during the next five years, in line with management's expectations. Over 85% of the total investment is for safety and reliability, replacing bare steel, cast iron, and vintage plastic pipes. We expect this investment to receive regulatory support and continue beyond our five-year forecast.

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Company Profile ATO

Business Description

Atmos Energy is the largest publicly traded, fully regulated, pure-play natural gas utility in the United States, serving more than 3 million customers in Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia. About two thirds of its earnings come from Texas, where it distributes natural gas in northern Texas and owns an intrastate gas pipeline spanning several key shale gas formations and interconnected with five storage facilities.

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5430 LBJ Freeway, Suite 1800, Three Lincoln Centre
Dallas, TX, 75240
Sector Utilities
Industry Utilities - Regulated Gas
Employees 4,791

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FAQs for Atmos Energy Corp Stock

Yes. ATO has a forward dividend yield of 2.52%. See ATO’s full dividends and stock split history on the Dividend tab.
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ATO’s market cap is 16.56 Bil.
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ATO’s stock style is Mid Core.
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High-growth stocks tend to represent the technology, healthcare, and communications sectors. They rarely distribute dividends to shareholders, opting for reinvestment in their businesses. More value-oriented stocks tend to represent financial services, utilities, and energy stocks. These are established companies that reliably pay dividends.

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ATO’s price/sales is 3.86.
Price/sales represents the amount an investor is willing to pay for a dollar generated from a particular company’s sales or revenues.

ATO’s price/forward earnings is 19.65.
Forward P/E gives some indication of how cheap or expensive a stock is compared with consensus earnings estimates. The lower the Forward P/E, the cheaper the stock.

ATO’s price/book is 1.76.
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ATO’s beta can be found in Trading Information at the top of this page.
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