BEPC vs. CWEN, ORA, NEP, AY, RNW, ENLT, CEPU, NFE, MGY, and VAL
Should you be buying Brookfield Renewable stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Renewable include Clearway Energy (CWEN), Ormat Technologies (ORA), NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure (AY), ReNew Energy Global (RNW), Enlight Renewable Energy (ENLT), Central Puerto (CEPU), New Fortress Energy (NFE), Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY), and Valaris (VAL). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Brookfield Renewable (NYSE:BEPC) and Clearway Energy (NYSE:CWEN) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Brookfield Renewable presently has a consensus price target of $34.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.31%. Clearway Energy has a consensus price target of $28.33, indicating a potential upside of 4.71%. Given Brookfield Renewable's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Brookfield Renewable is more favorable than Clearway Energy.
Brookfield Renewable has a net margin of 19.15% compared to Clearway Energy's net margin of 5.97%. Brookfield Renewable's return on equity of 5.52% beat Clearway Energy's return on equity.
Brookfield Renewable pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Clearway Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Brookfield Renewable pays out -443.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Clearway Energy pays out 243.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Clearway Energy had 4 more articles in the media than Brookfield Renewable. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Clearway Energy and 7 mentions for Brookfield Renewable. Clearway Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Brookfield Renewable's score of 0.87 indicating that Clearway Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Clearway Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Brookfield Renewable. Brookfield Renewable is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clearway Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
75.1% of Brookfield Renewable shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.0% of Clearway Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Clearway Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Clearway Energy received 110 more outperform votes than Brookfield Renewable when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.19% of users gave Clearway Energy an outperform vote while only 54.17% of users gave Brookfield Renewable an outperform vote.
Brookfield Renewable has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clearway Energy has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Clearway Energy beats Brookfield Renewable on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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