NG vs. SSE, JEL, SVT, UU, CNA, DRX, PNN, TEP, YU, and HGEN
Should you be buying National Grid stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Grid include SSE (SSE), Jersey Electricity (JEL), Severn Trent (SVT), United Utilities Group (UU), Centrica (CNA), Drax Group (DRX), Pennon Group (PNN), Telecom Plus (TEP), Yü Group (YU), and HydrogenOne Capital Growth (HGEN). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
SSE (LON:SSE) and National Grid (LON:NG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.
SSE pays an annual dividend of GBX 88 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. National Grid pays an annual dividend of GBX 57 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. SSE pays out 16,603.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. National Grid pays out 8,260.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. National Grid is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
SSE has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Grid has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SSE currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,959, suggesting a potential upside of 14.59%. National Grid has a consensus target price of GBX 1,212, suggesting a potential upside of 14.45%. Given National Grid's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe SSE is more favorable than National Grid.
70.2% of SSE shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.3% of National Grid shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of SSE shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of National Grid shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
National Grid has a net margin of 37.04% compared to National Grid's net margin of 4.96%. SSE's return on equity of 9.23% beat National Grid's return on equity.
SSE received 526 more outperform votes than National Grid when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.82% of users gave National Grid an outperform vote while only 56.84% of users gave SSE an outperform vote.
In the previous week, SSE had 6 more articles in the media than National Grid. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for SSE and 10 mentions for National Grid. National Grid's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat SSE's score of 0.10 indicating that SSE is being referred to more favorably in the media.
National Grid has higher revenue and earnings than SSE. National Grid is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SSE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
National Grid beats SSE on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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