OGE vs. ETR, FE, PPL, ES, PNW, IDA, POR, OTTR, ALE, and PNM
Should you be buying OGE Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OGE Energy include Entergy (ETR), FirstEnergy (FE), PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), Otter Tail (OTTR), ALLETE (ALE), and PNM Resources (PNM). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.
Entergy (NYSE:ETR) and OGE Energy (NYSE:OGE) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and media sentiment.
Entergy currently has a consensus price target of $114.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.63%. OGE Energy has a consensus price target of $33.40, indicating a potential downside of 5.60%. Given OGE Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Entergy is more favorable than OGE Energy.
Entergy received 146 more outperform votes than OGE Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.87% of users gave OGE Energy an outperform vote while only 49.16% of users gave Entergy an outperform vote.
88.1% of Entergy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.8% of OGE Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Entergy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of OGE Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Entergy has higher revenue and earnings than OGE Energy. Entergy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OGE Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Entergy has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OGE Energy has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Entergy had 11 more articles in the media than OGE Energy. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Entergy and 4 mentions for OGE Energy. Entergy's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat OGE Energy's score of 0.94 indicating that OGE Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Entergy pays an annual dividend of $4.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. OGE Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Entergy pays out 45.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. OGE Energy pays out 84.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Entergy has raised its dividend for 9 consecutive years and OGE Energy has raised its dividend for 17 consecutive years. OGE Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Entergy has a net margin of 17.75% compared to Entergy's net margin of 14.63%. OGE Energy's return on equity of 10.20% beat Entergy's return on equity.
Summary
Entergy beats OGE Energy on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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