OREANDA-NEWS. February 15, 2012. Below are the three companies in the Gas Utilities industry with the lowest Revenue Per Employee (RPE). Analysts use RPE as a measure to compare the productivity of companies in the same industry.

China Natural Gas ranks lowest with a an RPE of USD 107,000. Amerigas Partners is next with a an RPE of USD 435,000. Suburban Propane ranks third lowest with a an RPE of USD 458,000.

Energy follows with a an RPE of USD 525,000, and RGC Resources rounds out the bottom five with a an RPE of USD 580,000.

SmarTrend recommended that its subscribers protect gains by selling shares of China Natural Gas on July 25th, 2011 by issuing a Downtrend alert when the shares were trading at USD 3.01. Since that call, shares of China Natural Gas have fallen 36.2%. We are now looking for when a new Uptrend will commence and will alert SmarTrend subscribers in real time.