OGE vs. PNW, IDA, POR, OTTR, PNM, PPL, ES, FE, ETR, and BEP
Should you be buying OGE Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OGE Energy include Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), Otter Tail (OTTR), PNM Resources (PNM), PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Entergy (ETR), and Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) and OGE Energy (NYSE:OGE) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Pinnacle West Capital received 92 more outperform votes than OGE Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.96% of users gave OGE Energy an outperform vote while only 42.15% of users gave Pinnacle West Capital an outperform vote.
OGE Energy has a net margin of 15.59% compared to OGE Energy's net margin of 10.68%. Pinnacle West Capital's return on equity of 9.37% beat OGE Energy's return on equity.
Pinnacle West Capital currently has a consensus target price of $73.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.94%. OGE Energy has a consensus target price of $33.40, suggesting a potential downside of 1.24%. Given OGE Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pinnacle West Capital is more favorable than OGE Energy.
In the previous week, OGE Energy had 11 more articles in the media than Pinnacle West Capital. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for OGE Energy and 7 mentions for Pinnacle West Capital. OGE Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Pinnacle West Capital's score of 0.63 indicating that Pinnacle West Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pinnacle West Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. OGE Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Pinnacle West Capital pays out 79.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. OGE Energy pays out 80.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pinnacle West Capital has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years and OGE Energy has raised its dividend for 17 consecutive years. OGE Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Pinnacle West Capital has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OGE Energy has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
91.5% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.8% of OGE Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of OGE Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pinnacle West Capital has higher revenue and earnings than OGE Energy. OGE Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pinnacle West Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Pinnacle West Capital beats OGE Energy on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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