SVT vs. UU, PNN, CNA, DRX, SSE, TEP, YU, HGEN, JEL, and IES
Should you be buying Severn Trent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Severn Trent include United Utilities Group (UU), Pennon Group (PNN), Centrica (CNA), Drax Group (DRX), SSE (SSE), Telecom Plus (TEP), Yü Group (YU), HydrogenOne Capital Growth (HGEN), Jersey Electricity (JEL), and Invinity Energy Systems (IES). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
United Utilities Group (LON:UU) and Severn Trent (LON:SVT) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
United Utilities Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,246.67, indicating a potential upside of 19.36%. Severn Trent has a consensus target price of GBX 2,940, indicating a potential upside of 17.69%. Given Severn Trent's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe United Utilities Group is more favorable than Severn Trent.
66.7% of United Utilities Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Severn Trent shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of United Utilities Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Severn Trent shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
United Utilities Group has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Severn Trent has a beta of 0.39, indicating that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
United Utilities Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 47 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Severn Trent pays an annual dividend of GBX 111 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. United Utilities Group pays out -94,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Severn Trent pays out 26,428.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. United Utilities Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Severn Trent has a net margin of 4.63% compared to Severn Trent's net margin of -1.66%. United Utilities Group's return on equity of 10.14% beat Severn Trent's return on equity.
In the previous week, Severn Trent's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat United Utilities Group's score of 0.00 indicating that United Utilities Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Severn Trent has higher revenue and earnings than United Utilities Group. United Utilities Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Severn Trent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
United Utilities Group received 91 more outperform votes than Severn Trent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.54% of users gave United Utilities Group an outperform vote while only 52.37% of users gave Severn Trent an outperform vote.
Summary
Severn Trent beats United Utilities Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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