GNE vs. NRG, AES, ORA, UTL, NOVA, VIA, ALCE, VVPR, DUK, and PCG
Should you be buying Genie Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genie Energy include NRG Energy (NRG), AES (AES), Ormat Technologies (ORA), Unitil (UTL), Sunnova Energy International (NOVA), Via Renewables (VIA), Alternus Clean Energy (ALCE), VivoPower International (VVPR), Duke Energy (DUK), and PG&E (PCG).
NRG Energy (NYSE:NRG) and Genie Energy (NYSE:GNE) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
NRG Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Genie Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.30 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. Genie Energy pays out 60.0% 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. NRG Energy has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Genie Energy has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. NRG Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
NRG Energy has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genie Energy has a beta of 0.2, suggesting that its share price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500.
97.7% of NRG Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.2% of Genie Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of NRG Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.5% of Genie Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
NRG Energy has a net margin of 5.76% compared to NRG Energy's net margin of 2.99%. Genie Energy's return on equity of 42.60% beat NRG Energy's return on equity.
NRG Energy presently has a consensus target price of $68.00, indicating a potential downside of 12.37%. Given Genie Energy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NRG Energy is more favorable than Genie Energy.
NRG Energy received 493 more outperform votes than Genie Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.02% of users gave NRG Energy an outperform vote while only 57.10% of users gave Genie Energy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NRG Energy had 6 more articles in the media than Genie Energy. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for NRG Energy and 0 mentions for Genie Energy. Genie Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat NRG Energy's score of 0.00 indicating that NRG Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Genie Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NRG Energy. NRG Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genie Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
NRG Energy beats Genie Energy on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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