KEP vs. NEE, SO, CEG, AEP, D, VST, EIX, DTE, ETR, and FE
Should you be buying Korea Electric Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Korea Electric Power include NextEra Energy (NEE), Southern (SO), Constellation Energy (CEG), American Electric Power (AEP), Dominion Energy (D), Vistra (VST), Edison International (EIX), DTE Energy (DTE), Entergy (ETR), and FirstEnergy (FE). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Korea Electric Power (NYSE:KEP) and NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE) are both utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, risk and community ranking.
In the previous week, NextEra Energy had 28 more articles in the media than Korea Electric Power. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for NextEra Energy and 1 mentions for Korea Electric Power. NextEra Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Korea Electric Power's score of 0.27 indicating that NextEra Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Korea Electric Power has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextEra Energy has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
78.7% of NextEra Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Korea Electric Power shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of NextEra Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
NextEra Energy has a consensus target price of $72.64, indicating a potential downside of 6.40%. Given NextEra Energy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NextEra Energy is more favorable than Korea Electric Power.
NextEra Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Korea Electric Power. Korea Electric Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NextEra Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NextEra Energy received 525 more outperform votes than Korea Electric Power when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.26% of users gave NextEra Energy an outperform vote while only 55.48% of users gave Korea Electric Power an outperform vote.
NextEra Energy has a net margin of 27.62% compared to Korea Electric Power's net margin of -5.65%. NextEra Energy's return on equity of 11.72% beat Korea Electric Power's return on equity.
Summary
NextEra Energy beats Korea Electric Power on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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