BKH vs. OTTR, ELP, PNM, ENIC, AQN, POR, IDA, PAM, TAC, and BEP
Should you be buying Black Hills stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Black Hills include Otter Tail (OTTR), Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP), PNM Resources (PNM), Enel Chile (ENIC), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Portland General Electric (POR), IDACORP (IDA), Pampa Energía (PAM), TransAlta (TAC), and Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Black Hills (NYSE:BKH) and Otter Tail (NASDAQ:OTTR) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.
Black Hills pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Otter Tail pays an annual dividend of $1.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Black Hills pays out 66.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Otter Tail pays out 26.7% 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.
Otter Tail has a net margin of 21.81% compared to Black Hills' net margin of 11.25%. Otter Tail's return on equity of 21.64% beat Black Hills' return on equity.
Black Hills received 122 more outperform votes than Otter Tail when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.10% of users gave Otter Tail an outperform vote while only 59.62% of users gave Black Hills an outperform vote.
Otter Tail has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Black Hills. Otter Tail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Black Hills, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Black Hills currently has a consensus price target of $55.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.38%. Given Black Hills' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Black Hills is more favorable than Otter Tail.
In the previous week, Otter Tail had 2 more articles in the media than Black Hills. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Otter Tail and 5 mentions for Black Hills. Black Hills' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Otter Tail's score of 0.35 indicating that Black Hills is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Black Hills has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Otter Tail has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
86.7% of Black Hills shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.3% of Otter Tail shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Black Hills 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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Otter Tail beats Black Hills on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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