ORA vs. NRG, AES, GNE, EBR, AGR, PNW, BEP, OGE, BEPC, and CIG
Should you be buying Ormat Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ormat Technologies include NRG Energy (NRG), AES (AES), Genie Energy (GNE), Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), Avangrid (AGR), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP), OGE Energy (OGE), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), and CEMIG (CIG).
Ormat Technologies (NYSE:ORA) and NRG Energy (NYSE:NRG) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and community ranking.
95.5% of Ormat Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of NRG Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Ormat Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of NRG Energy shares are held 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.
Ormat Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $84.29, indicating a potential upside of 13.85%. NRG Energy has a consensus target price of $68.00, indicating a potential downside of 18.90%. Given Ormat Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Ormat Technologies is more favorable than NRG Energy.
Ormat Technologies has a net margin of 15.43% compared to NRG Energy's net margin of 5.76%. NRG Energy's return on equity of 42.60% beat Ormat Technologies' return on equity.
In the previous week, NRG Energy had 9 more articles in the media than Ormat Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for NRG Energy and 2 mentions for Ormat Technologies. Ormat Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat NRG Energy's score of 0.97 indicating that Ormat Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ormat Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NRG Energy. NRG Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ormat Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NRG Energy received 387 more outperform votes than Ormat Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.02% of users gave NRG Energy an outperform vote while only 56.61% of users gave Ormat Technologies an outperform vote.
Ormat Technologies has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NRG Energy has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ormat Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. NRG Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Ormat Technologies pays out 21.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NRG Energy pays out 23.1% 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.
Summary
NRG Energy beats Ormat Technologies on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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