PCG vs. PEG, ED, WEC, AEE, CMS, NI, EXC, XEL, LNT, and EVRG
Should you be buying PG&E stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PG&E include Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), NiSource (NI), Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), Alliant Energy (LNT), and Evergy (EVRG). These companies are all part of the "electric & other services combined" industry.
Public Service Enterprise Group (NYSE:PEG) and PG&E (NYSE:PCG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
73.3% of Public Service Enterprise Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of PG&E shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Public Service Enterprise Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of PG&E shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, PG&E had 19 more articles in the media than Public Service Enterprise Group. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for PG&E and 27 mentions for Public Service Enterprise Group. Public Service Enterprise Group's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat PG&E's score of 0.37 indicating that PG&E is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PG&E received 347 more outperform votes than Public Service Enterprise Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.24% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 56.69% of users gave Public Service Enterprise Group an outperform vote.
Public Service Enterprise Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PG&E. PG&E is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Public Service Enterprise Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Public Service Enterprise Group presently has a consensus target price of $67.15, indicating a potential downside of 3.80%. PG&E has a consensus target price of $19.11, indicating a potential upside of 9.83%. Given Public Service Enterprise Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PG&E is more favorable than Public Service Enterprise Group.
Public Service Enterprise Group pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Public Service Enterprise Group pays out 66.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PG&E pays out 3.6% 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. Public Service Enterprise Group has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Public Service Enterprise Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Public Service Enterprise Group has a net margin of 17.65% compared to Public Service Enterprise Group's net margin of 10.05%. Public Service Enterprise Group's return on equity of 11.32% beat PG&E's return on equity.
Public Service Enterprise Group has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PG&E has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Public Service Enterprise Group beats PG&E on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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