OTTR vs. PNM, ORA, POR, IDA, AY, EE, HE, OGE, OPTT, and PNW
Should you be buying Otter Tail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Otter Tail include PNM Resources (PNM), Ormat Technologies (ORA), Portland General Electric (POR), IDACORP (IDA), Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure (AY), Excelerate Energy (EE), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), OGE Energy (OGE), Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT), and Pinnacle West Capital (PNW).
PNM Resources (NYSE:PNM) and Otter Tail (NASDAQ:OTTR) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking and valuation.
91.7% of PNM Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.3% of Otter Tail shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of PNM Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Otter Tail shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PNM Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Otter Tail pays an annual dividend of $1.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. PNM Resources pays out 170.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Otter Tail pays out 26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PNM Resources has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Otter Tail has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. PNM Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
PNM Resources currently has a consensus price target of $46.80, suggesting a potential upside of 23.88%. Given Otter Tail's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe PNM Resources is more favorable than Otter Tail.
PNM Resources received 152 more outperform votes than Otter Tail when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.63% of users gave PNM Resources an outperform vote while only 60.10% of users gave Otter Tail an outperform vote.
Otter Tail has a net margin of 21.81% compared to Otter Tail's net margin of 4.38%. PNM Resources' return on equity of 21.64% beat Otter Tail's return on equity.
PNM Resources has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Otter Tail has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PNM Resources had 11 more articles in the media than Otter Tail. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for PNM Resources and 7 mentions for Otter Tail. PNM Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Otter Tail's score of 0.05 indicating that Otter Tail is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Otter Tail has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PNM Resources. Otter Tail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PNM Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
PNM Resources and Otter Tail tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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