NRG vs. EBR, CNP, AGR, FTS, ES, PPL, FE, DTE, ETR, and PNW
Should you be buying NRG Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NRG Energy include Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Avangrid (AGR), Fortis (FTS), Eversource Energy (ES), PPL (PPL), FirstEnergy (FE), DTE Energy (DTE), Entergy (ETR), and Pinnacle West Capital (PNW). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (NYSE:EBR) and NRG Energy (NYSE:NRG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.
6.5% of Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of NRG Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of NRG Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NRG Energy.
NRG Energy has a consensus target price of $65.50, indicating a potential downside of 19.35%. Given Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe NRG Energy is more favorable than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás.
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a net margin of 12.98% compared to Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' net margin of 5.76%. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' return on equity of 42.60% beat NRG Energy's return on equity.
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NRG Energy has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. NRG Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. NRG Energy pays out 23.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and NRG Energy has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years. NRG Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
NRG Energy received 521 more outperform votes than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave NRG Energy an outperform vote while only 59.02% of users gave Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NRG Energy had 13 more articles in the media than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for NRG Energy and 2 mentions for Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat NRG Energy's score of 0.59 indicating that NRG Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
NRG Energy beats Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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