NRG vs. EBR, CNP, AGR, FTS, ES, PPL, FE, DTE, ETR, and PNW
Should you be buying NRG Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NRG Energy include Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Avangrid (AGR), Fortis (FTS), Eversource Energy (ES), PPL (PPL), FirstEnergy (FE), DTE Energy (DTE), Entergy (ETR), and Pinnacle West Capital (PNW). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (NYSE:EBR) and NRG Energy (NYSE:NRG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NRG Energy has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NRG Energy received 521 more outperform votes than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave NRG Energy an outperform vote while only 59.02% of users gave Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás an outperform vote.
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a net margin of 12.98% compared to Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' net margin of 5.76%. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' return on equity of 42.60% beat NRG Energy's return on equity.
NRG Energy has a consensus target price of $65.50, suggesting a potential downside of 20.41%. Given Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NRG Energy is more favorable than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás.
In the previous week, NRG Energy had 16 more articles in the media than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for NRG Energy and 1 mentions for Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás. NRG Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' score of 1.12 indicating that Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. NRG Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. NRG Energy pays out 23.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and NRG Energy has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years. NRG Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NRG Energy.
6.5% of Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of NRG Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of NRG Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
NRG Energy beats Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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