POR vs. PNW, OGE, IDA, OTTR, ALE, PNM, MGEE, ARRY, HE, and UTL
Should you be buying Portland General Electric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Portland General Electric include Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Otter Tail (OTTR), ALLETE (ALE), PNM Resources (PNM), MGE Energy (MGEE), Array Technologies (ARRY), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), and Unitil (UTL). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.
Portland General Electric (NYSE:POR) and Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.
Pinnacle West Capital has a net margin of 11.09% compared to Portland General Electric's net margin of 8.51%. Portland General Electric's return on equity of 8.50% beat Pinnacle West Capital's return on equity.
91.5% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Portland General Electric 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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Portland General Electric has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinnacle West Capital has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Portland General Electric presently has a consensus target price of $44.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.39%. Pinnacle West Capital has a consensus target price of $74.08, suggesting a potential downside of 3.57%. Given Portland General Electric's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Portland General Electric is more favorable than Pinnacle West Capital.
Pinnacle West Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Portland General Electric. Pinnacle West Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Portland General Electric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Portland General Electric pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Pinnacle West Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Portland General Electric pays out 72.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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, Portland General Electric had 2 more articles in the media than Pinnacle West Capital. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Portland General Electric and 9 mentions for Pinnacle West Capital. Pinnacle West Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Portland General Electric's score of 0.54 indicating that Pinnacle West Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pinnacle West Capital received 23 more outperform votes than Portland General Electric when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 46.17% of users gave Portland General Electric an outperform vote while only 42.12% of users gave Pinnacle West Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Portland General Electric beats Pinnacle West Capital on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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