CPX vs. TA, BEP.UN, ACO.X, NPI, BIPC, BEPC, AQN, BLX, CU, and SPB
Should you be buying Capital Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capital Power include TransAlta (TA), Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP.UN), ATCO (ACO.X), Northland Power (NPI), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Boralex (BLX), Canadian Utilities (CU), and Superior Plus (SPB). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Capital Power (TSE:CPX) and TransAlta (TSE:TA) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Capital Power received 40 more outperform votes than TransAlta when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.37% of users gave Capital Power an outperform vote while only 53.21% of users gave TransAlta an outperform vote.
Capital Power currently has a consensus target price of C$45.73, suggesting a potential upside of 27.41%. TransAlta has a consensus target price of C$15.55, suggesting a potential upside of 67.93%. Given TransAlta's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TransAlta is more favorable than Capital Power.
Capital Power has higher revenue and earnings than TransAlta. TransAlta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital Power, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Capital Power pays an annual dividend of C$2.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. TransAlta pays an annual dividend of C$0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Capital Power pays out 40.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TransAlta pays out 10.3% 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.
19.6% of Capital Power shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.2% of TransAlta shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Capital Power shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of TransAlta shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Capital Power has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TransAlta has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TransAlta has a net margin of 20.71% compared to Capital Power's net margin of 18.29%. TransAlta's return on equity of 43.58% beat Capital Power's return on equity.
In the previous week, Capital Power had 18 more articles in the media than TransAlta. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Capital Power and 13 mentions for TransAlta. TransAlta's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Capital Power's score of 0.33 indicating that TransAlta is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
TransAlta beats Capital Power on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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