PPL vs. DUK, EIX, ETR, FE, ES, PNW, OGE, IDA, POR, and OTTR
Should you be buying PPL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PPL include Duke Energy (DUK), Edison International (EIX), Entergy (ETR), FirstEnergy (FE), Eversource Energy (ES), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), and Otter Tail (OTTR). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.
PPL (NYSE:PPL) and Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.
Duke Energy received 22 more outperform votes than PPL when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.55% of users gave PPL an outperform vote while only 53.67% of users gave Duke Energy an outperform vote.
Duke Energy has a net margin of 10.78% compared to PPL's net margin of 9.29%. Duke Energy's return on equity of 9.25% beat PPL's return on equity.
PPL has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Duke Energy has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PPL presently has a consensus target price of $32.45, suggesting a potential upside of 13.10%. Duke Energy has a consensus target price of $102.46, suggesting a potential downside of 0.39%. Given PPL's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe PPL is more favorable than Duke Energy.
PPL pays an annual dividend of $1.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Duke Energy pays an annual dividend of $4.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. 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. Duke Energy pays out 103.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Duke Energy has higher revenue and earnings than PPL. Duke Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PPL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Duke Energy had 27 more articles in the media than PPL. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Duke Energy and 0 mentions for PPL. Duke Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat PPL's score of 0.57 indicating that Duke Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
77.0% of PPL shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.3% of Duke Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of PPL shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Duke Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Duke Energy beats PPL on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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