BEPC vs. PPL, ES, FTS, CNP, NRG, EBR, AGR, PNW, BEP, and OGE
Should you be buying Brookfield Renewable stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Renewable include PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), Fortis (FTS), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), NRG Energy (NRG), Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), Avangrid (AGR), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP), and OGE Energy (OGE). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Brookfield Renewable (NYSE:BEPC) and PPL (NYSE:PPL) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Brookfield Renewable has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PPL has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PPL has a net margin of 9.29% compared to Brookfield Renewable's net margin of 7.10%. PPL's return on equity of 8.80% beat Brookfield Renewable's return on equity.
Brookfield Renewable pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. PPL pays an annual dividend of $1.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Brookfield Renewable pays out -308.7% 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. Brookfield Renewable is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Brookfield Renewable had 9 more articles in the media than PPL. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Brookfield Renewable and 1 mentions for PPL. Brookfield Renewable's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat PPL's score of 0.00 indicating that Brookfield Renewable is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PPL has higher revenue and earnings than Brookfield Renewable. Brookfield Renewable is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PPL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PPL received 564 more outperform votes than Brookfield Renewable when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.55% of users gave PPL an outperform vote while only 54.17% of users gave Brookfield Renewable an outperform vote.
75.1% of Brookfield Renewable shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of PPL shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of PPL shares are owned 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.
Brookfield Renewable currently has a consensus target price of $34.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.56%. PPL has a consensus target price of $32.45, indicating a potential upside of 15.33%. Given PPL's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PPL is more favorable than Brookfield Renewable.
Summary
PPL beats Brookfield Renewable on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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