PAM vs. TAC, PNM, OTTR, KEN, BKH, HE, ELP, EDN, ENIC, and AQN
Should you be buying Pampa Energía stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pampa Energía include TransAlta (TAC), PNM Resources (PNM), Otter Tail (OTTR), Kenon (KEN), Black Hills (BKH), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP), Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN), Enel Chile (ENIC), and Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Pampa Energía (NYSE:PAM) and TransAlta (NYSE:TAC) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Pampa Energía received 12 more outperform votes than TransAlta when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.96% of users gave Pampa Energía an outperform vote while only 54.90% of users gave TransAlta an outperform vote.
Pampa Energía currently has a consensus target price of $41.33, indicating a potential downside of 15.56%. Given Pampa Energía's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Pampa Energía is more favorable than TransAlta.
TransAlta has a net margin of 18.70% compared to Pampa Energía's net margin of 17.45%. TransAlta's return on equity of 43.02% beat Pampa Energía's return on equity.
12.8% of Pampa Energía shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.0% of TransAlta shares are held by institutional investors. 55.5% of Pampa Energía shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.1% of TransAlta shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, TransAlta had 11 more articles in the media than Pampa Energía. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for TransAlta and 5 mentions for Pampa Energía. Pampa Energía's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat TransAlta's score of 0.18 indicating that Pampa Energía is being referred to more favorably in the media.
TransAlta has higher revenue and earnings than Pampa Energía. TransAlta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pampa Energía, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pampa Energía has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TransAlta has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pampa Energía beats TransAlta on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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