ES vs. PPL, FE, ETR, EIX, PNW, OGE, SO, FTS, DTE, and CNP
Should you be buying Eversource Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eversource Energy include PPL (PPL), FirstEnergy (FE), Entergy (ETR), Edison International (EIX), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), Southern (SO), Fortis (FTS), DTE Energy (DTE), and CenterPoint Energy (CNP). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
PPL (NYSE:PPL) and Eversource Energy (NYSE:ES) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
PPL has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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 pays an annual dividend of $1.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Eversource Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. PPL pays out 100.0% 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 pays out -242.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PPL has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Eversource Energy has raised its dividend for 26 consecutive years. Eversource Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
PPL has a net margin of 9.29% compared to PPL's net margin of -3.60%. PPL's return on equity of 10.22% beat Eversource Energy's return on equity.
PPL has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eversource Energy has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PPL currently has a consensus target price of $32.27, suggesting a potential upside of 13.16%. Eversource Energy has a consensus target price of $66.23, suggesting a potential upside of 8.50%. Given Eversource Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe PPL is more favorable than Eversource Energy.
In the previous week, Eversource Energy had 10 more articles in the media than PPL. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Eversource Energy and 9 mentions for PPL. PPL's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Eversource Energy's score of 0.59 indicating that Eversource Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PPL received 115 more outperform votes than Eversource Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.57% of users gave PPL an outperform vote while only 47.53% of users gave Eversource Energy an outperform vote.
77.0% of PPL shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.0% of Eversource Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of PPL shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Eversource Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
PPL beats Eversource Energy on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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