PNW vs. OGE, IDA, POR, OTTR, PNM, PPL, ES, FE, ETR, and EIX
Should you be buying Pinnacle West Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pinnacle West Capital include OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), Otter Tail (OTTR), PNM Resources (PNM), PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Entergy (ETR), and Edison International (EIX). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.
Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) and OGE Energy (NYSE:OGE) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Pinnacle West Capital currently has a consensus price target of $73.42, indicating a potential downside of 2.24%. OGE Energy has a consensus price target of $33.40, indicating a potential downside of 4.08%. Given Pinnacle West Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Pinnacle West Capital is more favorable than OGE Energy.
OGE Energy has a net margin of 15.59% compared to Pinnacle West Capital's net margin of 10.68%. OGE Energy's return on equity of 9.37% beat Pinnacle West Capital's return on equity.
In the previous week, OGE Energy had 12 more articles in the media than Pinnacle West Capital. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for OGE Energy and 17 mentions for Pinnacle West Capital. Pinnacle West Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat OGE Energy's score of 0.34 indicating that Pinnacle West Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 42.11% of users gave Pinnacle West Capital an outperform vote.
91.5% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.8% of OGE Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of OGE Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company 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.
Pinnacle West Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. OGE Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. 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 a beta of 0.48, indicating that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OGE Energy has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pinnacle West Capital beats OGE Energy on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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