XEL vs. ED, PEG, WEC, PCG, EXC, AEE, LNT, NI, EVRG, and DUK
Should you be buying Xcel Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Xcel Energy include Consolidated Edison (ED), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), WEC Energy Group (WEC), PG&E (PCG), Exelon (EXC), 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.
Xcel Energy (NASDAQ:XEL) and Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Consolidated Edison received 344 more outperform votes than Xcel Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 41.55% of users gave Consolidated Edison an outperform vote while only 27.83% of users gave Xcel Energy an outperform vote.
Consolidated Edison has higher revenue and earnings than Xcel Energy. Consolidated Edison is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xcel Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Xcel Energy has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Consolidated Edison has a beta of 0.35, indicating that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Xcel Energy had 16 more articles in the media than Consolidated Edison. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Xcel Energy and 13 mentions for Consolidated Edison. Xcel Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Consolidated Edison's score of 0.53 indicating that Xcel Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
78.4% of Xcel Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.3% of Consolidated Edison shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Xcel Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Consolidated Edison shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Consolidated Edison has a net margin of 17.19% compared to Xcel Energy's net margin of 13.36%. Xcel Energy's return on equity of 11.12% beat Consolidated Edison's return on equity.
Xcel Energy presently has a consensus target price of $62.58, indicating a potential upside of 15.98%. Consolidated Edison has a consensus target price of $87.54, indicating a potential downside of 5.80%. Given Xcel Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Xcel Energy is more favorable than Consolidated Edison.
Xcel Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Consolidated Edison pays an annual dividend of $3.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Xcel Energy pays out 65.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Consolidated Edison pays out 46.2% 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.
Summary
Xcel Energy beats Consolidated Edison on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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