AGR vs. NRG, EBR, CNP, FTS, PNW, PPL, ES, OGE, FE, and BEP
Should you be buying Avangrid stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avangrid include NRG Energy (NRG), Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Fortis (FTS), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), OGE Energy (OGE), FirstEnergy (FE), and Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Avangrid (NYSE:AGR) and NRG Energy (NYSE:NRG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
13.1% of Avangrid shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of NRG Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Avangrid shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of NRG Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Avangrid presently has a consensus target price of $34.75, indicating a potential downside of 5.11%. NRG Energy has a consensus target price of $59.50, indicating a potential downside of 22.37%. Given Avangrid's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Avangrid is more favorable than NRG Energy.
Avangrid has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NRG Energy. NRG Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avangrid, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Avangrid has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NRG Energy has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Avangrid pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. NRG Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Avangrid pays out 76.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NRG Energy pays out -152.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
NRG Energy received 410 more outperform votes than Avangrid when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave NRG Energy an outperform vote while only 55.07% of users gave Avangrid an outperform vote.
Avangrid has a net margin of 10.80% compared to NRG Energy's net margin of -0.70%. NRG Energy's return on equity of 44.03% beat Avangrid's return on equity.
In the previous week, NRG Energy had 12 more articles in the media than Avangrid. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for NRG Energy and 7 mentions for Avangrid. NRG Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Avangrid's score of 0.91 indicating that NRG Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
NRG Energy beats Avangrid on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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