NRG vs. AGR, EBR, CNP, FTS, PPL, ES, FE, PNW, DTE, and ETR
Should you be buying NRG Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NRG Energy include Avangrid (AGR), Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Fortis (FTS), PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), DTE Energy (DTE), and Entergy (ETR). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Avangrid (NYSE:AGR) and NRG Energy (NYSE:NRG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment and earnings.
NRG Energy received 410 more outperform votes than Avangrid when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave NRG Energy an outperform vote while only 55.07% of users gave Avangrid an outperform vote.
Avangrid presently has a consensus price target of $34.75, indicating a potential downside of 4.48%. NRG Energy has a consensus price target of $59.50, indicating a potential downside of 18.28%. Given NRG Energy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Avangrid is more favorable than NRG Energy.
Avangrid has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NRG Energy has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
13.1% of Avangrid shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of NRG Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Avangrid shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of NRG Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Avangrid pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. NRG Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Avangrid pays out 76.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NRG Energy pays out -152.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NRG Energy has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
Avangrid has a net margin of 10.80% compared to Avangrid's net margin of -0.70%. Avangrid's return on equity of 44.03% beat NRG Energy's return on equity.
Avangrid has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NRG Energy. NRG Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avangrid, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Avangrid had 16 more articles in the media than NRG Energy. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Avangrid and 6 mentions for NRG Energy. Avangrid's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat NRG Energy's score of 0.39 indicating that NRG Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
NRG Energy beats Avangrid on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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