PPL vs. ES, FE, ETR, EIX, PNW, OGE, SO, FTS, CNP, and DTE
Should you be buying PPL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PPL include Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Entergy (ETR), Edison International (EIX), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), Southern (SO), Fortis (FTS), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), and DTE Energy (DTE). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Eversource Energy (NYSE:ES) and PPL (NYSE:PPL) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
PPL received 115 more outperform votes than Eversource Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.65% of users gave PPL an outperform vote while only 47.52% of users gave Eversource Energy an outperform vote.
PPL has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Eversource Energy. Eversource Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PPL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PPL has a net margin of 8.90% compared to PPL's net margin of -3.71%. PPL's return on equity of 9.92% beat Eversource Energy's return on equity.
In the previous week, Eversource Energy had 6 more articles in the media than PPL. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Eversource Energy and 8 mentions for PPL. PPL's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Eversource Energy's score of 0.23 indicating that Eversource Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
80.0% of Eversource Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of PPL shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Eversource Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of PPL shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Eversource Energy has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PPL has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Eversource Energy presently has a consensus target price of $65.85, suggesting a potential upside of 8.91%. PPL has a consensus target price of $32.50, suggesting a potential upside of 18.05%. Given Eversource Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PPL is more favorable than Eversource Energy.
Eversource Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. PPL pays an annual dividend of $1.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Eversource Energy pays out -227.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PPL pays out 103.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Eversource Energy has raised its dividend for 26 consecutive years and PPL has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Eversource Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
PPL beats Eversource Energy on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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