CNA vs. GLO, AMPH, OPG, ETP, GSH, RUR, SSE, SVT, UU, and DRX
Should you be buying Centrica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centrica include ContourGlobal (GLO), Aggregated Micro Power (AMPH), OPG Power Ventures (OPG), Eneraqua Technologies (ETP), Green & Smart (GSH), Rurelec (RUR), SSE (SSE), Severn Trent (SVT), United Utilities Group (UU), and Drax Group (DRX). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
ContourGlobal (LON:GLO) and Centrica (LON:CNA) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
ContourGlobal pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.18 per share. Centrica pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. ContourGlobal 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. Centrica pays out 579.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Centrica had 6 more articles in the media than ContourGlobal. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Centrica and 0 mentions for ContourGlobal. ContourGlobal's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Centrica's score of 0.00 indicating that Centrica is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Centrica has higher revenue and earnings than ContourGlobal. ContourGlobal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centrica, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Centrica has a net margin of 14.85% compared to Centrica's net margin of 0.00%. ContourGlobal's return on equity of 146.56% beat Centrica's return on equity.
54.6% of Centrica shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Centrica shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Centrica has a consensus price target of GBX 156, suggesting a potential upside of 10.91%.
Centrica received 890 more outperform votes than ContourGlobal when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.12% of users gave ContourGlobal an outperform vote while only 57.95% of users gave Centrica an outperform vote.
Summary
Centrica beats ContourGlobal on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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