EXC vs. PCG, PEG, ED, XEL, WEC, AEE, LNT, NI, EVRG, and DUK
Should you be buying Exelon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Exelon include PG&E (PCG), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), Xcel Energy (XEL), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Ameren (AEE), Alliant Energy (LNT), NiSource (NI), Evergy (EVRG), and Duke Energy (DUK). These companies are all part of the "electric & other services combined" industry.
PG&E (NYSE:PCG) and Exelon (NASDAQ:EXC) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Exelon pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. PG&E pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Exelon pays out 65.2% 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. Exelon has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Exelon is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
PG&E has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Exelon has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PG&E currently has a consensus price target of $19.11, suggesting a potential upside of 12.22%. Exelon has a consensus price target of $38.92, suggesting a potential upside of 4.28%. Given Exelon's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe PG&E is more favorable than Exelon.
78.6% of PG&E shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.9% of Exelon shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of PG&E shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Exelon shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, PG&E had 27 more articles in the media than Exelon. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for PG&E and 17 mentions for Exelon. Exelon's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat PG&E's score of 0.46 indicating that PG&E is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Exelon has a net margin of 10.72% compared to Exelon's net margin of 10.05%. Exelon's return on equity of 11.48% beat PG&E's return on equity.
Exelon has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PG&E. PG&E is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Exelon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PG&E received 800 more outperform votes than Exelon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.24% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 45.45% of users gave Exelon an outperform vote.
Summary
PG&E beats Exelon on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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