AEP vs. D, EIX, VST, ETR, DTE, FE, ES, PPL, FTS, and CNP
Should you be buying American Electric Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Electric Power include Dominion Energy (D), Edison International (EIX), Vistra (VST), Entergy (ETR), DTE Energy (DTE), FirstEnergy (FE), Eversource Energy (ES), PPL (PPL), Fortis (FTS), and CenterPoint Energy (CNP). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
American Electric Power (NASDAQ:AEP) and Dominion Energy (NYSE:D) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Dominion Energy has a net margin of 12.40% compared to American Electric Power's net margin of 11.64%. American Electric Power's return on equity of 11.04% beat Dominion Energy's return on equity.
American Electric Power has a beta of 0.51, indicating that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dominion Energy has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
American Electric Power presently has a consensus target price of $86.08, suggesting a potential upside of 0.96%. Dominion Energy has a consensus target price of $49.10, suggesting a potential downside of 2.68%. Given American Electric Power's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe American Electric Power is more favorable than Dominion Energy.
American Electric Power has higher revenue and earnings than Dominion Energy. American Electric Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dominion Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Electric Power pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Dominion Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. American Electric Power pays out 82.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Dominion Energy pays out 114.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, American Electric Power had 2 more articles in the media than Dominion Energy. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for American Electric Power and 32 mentions for Dominion Energy. Dominion Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat American Electric Power's score of 0.34 indicating that Dominion Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
75.2% of American Electric Power shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.0% of Dominion Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of American Electric Power shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Dominion Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Dominion Energy received 501 more outperform votes than American Electric Power when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.73% of users gave American Electric Power an outperform vote while only 53.00% of users gave Dominion Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
American Electric Power beats Dominion Energy on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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