XEL vs. ED, WEC, PEG, EXC, AEE, CMS, LNT, NI, EVRG, and PCG
Should you be buying Xcel Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Xcel Energy include Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Exelon (EXC), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), Alliant Energy (LNT), NiSource (NI), Evergy (EVRG), and PG&E (PCG). These companies are all part of the "electric & other services combined" industry.
Xcel Energy (NASDAQ:XEL) and Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Consolidated Edison received 342 more outperform votes than Xcel Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 41.46% of users gave Consolidated Edison an outperform vote while only 28.81% of users gave Xcel Energy an outperform vote.
Xcel Energy has a net margin of 13.36% compared to Consolidated Edison's net margin of 12.43%. Xcel Energy's return on equity of 11.03% beat Consolidated Edison's return on equity.
Xcel Energy currently has a consensus target price of $62.83, indicating a potential upside of 13.17%. Consolidated Edison has a consensus target price of $88.46, indicating a potential downside of 8.89%. Given Xcel Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Xcel Energy is more favorable than Consolidated Edison.
In the previous week, Xcel Energy had 7 more articles in the media than Consolidated Edison. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Xcel Energy and 10 mentions for Consolidated Edison. Xcel Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Consolidated Edison's score of 0.46 indicating that Xcel Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Xcel Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Consolidated Edison pays an annual dividend of $3.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Xcel Energy pays out 65.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Consolidated Edison pays out 63.7% 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.
78.4% of Xcel Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.3% of Consolidated Edison shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Xcel Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Consolidated Edison shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Consolidated Edison has higher revenue and earnings than Xcel Energy. Xcel Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Consolidated Edison, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Xcel Energy has a beta of 0.36, meaning that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Consolidated Edison has a beta of 0.34, meaning that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Xcel Energy beats Consolidated Edison on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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