NEP vs. AY, RNW, ENLT, CEPU, ORA, BEPC, CWEN, BTU, CRK, and BE
Should you be buying NextEra Energy Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NextEra Energy Partners include Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure (AY), ReNew Energy Global (RNW), Enlight Renewable Energy (ENLT), Central Puerto (CEPU), Ormat Technologies (ORA), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Clearway Energy (CWEN), Peabody Energy (BTU), Comstock Resources (CRK), and Bloom Energy (BE). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
NextEra Energy Partners (NYSE:NEP) and Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure (NASDAQ:AY) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure received 64 more outperform votes than NextEra Energy Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.86% of users gave Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 60.13% of users gave NextEra Energy Partners an outperform vote.
NextEra Energy Partners currently has a consensus price target of $41.60, suggesting a potential upside of 40.54%. Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure has a consensus price target of $23.67, suggesting a potential upside of 10.49%. Given NextEra Energy Partners' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe NextEra Energy Partners is more favorable than Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure.
66.0% of NextEra Energy Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.5% of Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of NextEra Energy Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure had 8 more articles in the media than NextEra Energy Partners. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure and 6 mentions for NextEra Energy Partners. NextEra Energy Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure's score of 0.80 indicating that NextEra Energy Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NextEra Energy Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure. NextEra Energy Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NextEra Energy Partners pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%. Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $1.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. NextEra Energy Partners pays out 115.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure pays out 423.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NextEra Energy Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
NextEra Energy Partners has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
NextEra Energy Partners has a net margin of 23.55% compared to Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure's net margin of 4.43%. Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure's return on equity of 2.91% beat NextEra Energy Partners' return on equity.
Summary
NextEra Energy Partners beats Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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