PNW vs. OGE, IDA, POR, OTTR, PNM, ES, PPL, FE, ETR, and EIX
Should you be buying Pinnacle West Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pinnacle West Capital include OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), Otter Tail (OTTR), PNM Resources (PNM), Eversource Energy (ES), PPL (PPL), FirstEnergy (FE), Entergy (ETR), and Edison International (EIX). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.
OGE Energy (NYSE:OGE) and Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
OGE Energy presently has a consensus price target of $33.40, suggesting a potential downside of 6.44%. Pinnacle West Capital has a consensus price target of $74.08, suggesting a potential downside of 3.57%. Given OGE Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Pinnacle West Capital is more favorable than OGE Energy.
OGE Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Pinnacle West Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. OGE Energy pays out 84.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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. OGE Energy has raised its dividend for 17 consecutive years and Pinnacle West Capital has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. OGE Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Pinnacle West Capital has higher revenue and earnings than OGE Energy. Pinnacle West Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OGE Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
OGE Energy has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinnacle West Capital has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
OGE Energy has a net margin of 14.63% compared to OGE Energy's net margin of 11.09%. Pinnacle West Capital's return on equity of 8.89% beat OGE Energy's return on equity.
Pinnacle West Capital received 93 more outperform votes than OGE Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.87% of users gave OGE Energy an outperform vote while only 42.12% of users gave Pinnacle West Capital an outperform vote.
In the previous week, OGE Energy had 12 more articles in the media than Pinnacle West Capital. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for OGE Energy and 9 mentions for Pinnacle West Capital. OGE Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Pinnacle West Capital's score of 0.96 indicating that Pinnacle West Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
71.8% of OGE Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of OGE Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
OGE Energy beats Pinnacle West Capital on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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