PPL vs. ES, FE, ETR, EIX, PNW, OGE, SO, FTS, DTE, and CNP
Should you be buying PPL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PPL include Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Entergy (ETR), Edison International (EIX), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), Southern (SO), Fortis (FTS), DTE Energy (DTE), and CenterPoint Energy (CNP). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Eversource Energy (NYSE:ES) and PPL (NYSE:PPL) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
Eversource Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. PPL pays an annual dividend of $1.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Eversource Energy pays out -242.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PPL pays out 100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Eversource Energy has increased its dividend for 26 consecutive years and PPL has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Eversource Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Eversource Energy presently has a consensus price target of $65.86, suggesting a potential upside of 14.63%. PPL has a consensus price target of $32.27, suggesting a potential upside of 11.71%. Given PPL's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Eversource Energy is more favorable than PPL.
In the previous week, PPL had 3 more articles in the media than Eversource Energy. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for PPL and 8 mentions for Eversource Energy. PPL's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Eversource Energy's score of 0.58 indicating that Eversource Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PPL received 115 more outperform votes than Eversource Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.50% of users gave PPL an outperform vote while only 47.48% of users gave Eversource Energy an outperform vote.
PPL has a net margin of 9.29% compared to PPL's net margin of -3.60%. PPL's return on equity of 10.32% beat Eversource Energy's return on equity.
Eversource Energy has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PPL has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PPL has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Eversource Energy. Eversource Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PPL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.0% of Eversource Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of PPL shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Eversource Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of PPL shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
PPL beats Eversource Energy on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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