BEPC vs. PPL, ES, FTS, CNP, NRG, EBR, AGR, KEP, PNW, and BEP
Should you be buying Brookfield Renewable stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Renewable include PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), Fortis (FTS), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), NRG Energy (NRG), Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), Avangrid (AGR), Korea Electric Power (KEP), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), and Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
PPL (NYSE:PPL) and Brookfield Renewable (NYSE:BEPC) are both utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
PPL pays an annual dividend of $1.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Brookfield Renewable pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. 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. Brookfield Renewable pays out -308.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PPL has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Brookfield Renewable is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
PPL currently has a consensus target price of $32.45, suggesting a potential upside of 13.10%. Brookfield Renewable has a consensus target price of $34.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.33%. Given Brookfield Renewable's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe PPL is more favorable than Brookfield Renewable.
77.0% of PPL shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Brookfield Renewable shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of PPL 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.
In the previous week, Brookfield Renewable had 11 more articles in the media than PPL. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Brookfield Renewable and 0 mentions for PPL. PPL's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Brookfield Renewable's score of 0.57 indicating that Brookfield Renewable is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PPL has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Renewable has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PPL has higher revenue and earnings than Brookfield Renewable. Brookfield Renewable is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PPL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PPL received 564 more outperform votes than Brookfield Renewable when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.55% of users gave PPL an outperform vote while only 54.17% of users gave Brookfield Renewable an outperform vote.
PPL has a net margin of 9.29% compared to PPL's net margin of 7.10%. Brookfield Renewable's return on equity of 8.80% beat PPL's return on equity.
Summary
PPL beats Brookfield Renewable on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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