NEP vs. PNW, BEP, OGE, BEPC, CWEN, CIG, IDA, ORA, POR, and AQN
Should you be buying NextEra Energy Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NextEra Energy Partners include Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP), OGE Energy (OGE), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Clearway Energy (CWEN), CEMIG (CIG), IDACORP (IDA), Ormat Technologies (ORA), Portland General Electric (POR), and Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
NextEra Energy Partners (NYSE:NEP) and Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, valuation and earnings.
NextEra Energy Partners has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinnacle West Capital has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
NextEra Energy Partners presently has a consensus target price of $39.29, suggesting a potential upside of 21.33%. Pinnacle West Capital has a consensus target price of $76.04, suggesting a potential upside of 0.46%. Given NextEra Energy Partners' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe NextEra Energy Partners is more favorable than Pinnacle West Capital.
NextEra Energy Partners pays an annual dividend of $3.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.0%. Pinnacle West Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. NextEra Energy Partners pays out 117.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pinnacle West Capital pays out 76.7% 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, Pinnacle West Capital had 1 more articles in the media than NextEra Energy Partners. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Pinnacle West Capital and 13 mentions for NextEra Energy Partners. Pinnacle West Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat NextEra Energy Partners' score of 0.93 indicating that Pinnacle West Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pinnacle West Capital has higher revenue and earnings than NextEra Energy Partners. NextEra Energy Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pinnacle West Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
66.0% of NextEra Energy Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of NextEra Energy Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
NextEra Energy Partners has a net margin of 23.55% compared to Pinnacle West Capital's net margin of 11.09%. Pinnacle West Capital's return on equity of 8.29% beat NextEra Energy Partners' return on equity.
Pinnacle West Capital received 3 more outperform votes than NextEra Energy Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.03% of users gave NextEra Energy Partners an outperform vote while only 42.05% of users gave Pinnacle West Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Pinnacle West Capital beats NextEra Energy Partners on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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