BKH vs. OTTR, ELP, PNM, ENIC, AQN, POR, IDA, PAM, TAC, and BEP
Should you be buying Black Hills stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Black Hills include Otter Tail (OTTR), Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP), PNM Resources (PNM), Enel Chile (ENIC), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Portland General Electric (POR), IDACORP (IDA), Pampa Energía (PAM), TransAlta (TAC), and Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Otter Tail (NASDAQ:OTTR) and Black Hills (NYSE:BKH) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Black Hills received 122 more outperform votes than Otter Tail when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.10% of users gave Otter Tail an outperform vote while only 59.62% of users gave Black Hills an outperform vote.
Otter Tail currently has a consensus target price of $68.00, indicating a potential downside of 21.88%. Black Hills has a consensus target price of $55.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.75%. Given Otter Tail's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Black Hills is more favorable than Otter Tail.
Otter Tail has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Black Hills has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Otter Tail pays an annual dividend of $1.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Black Hills pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Otter Tail pays out 26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Black Hills pays out 66.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Otter Tail has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years and Black Hills has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
61.3% of Otter Tail shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of Black Hills shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Otter Tail shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Black Hills shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Otter Tail has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Black Hills. Otter Tail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Black Hills, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Otter Tail has a net margin of 21.81% compared to Otter Tail's net margin of 11.25%. Black Hills' return on equity of 21.64% beat Otter Tail's return on equity.
In the previous week, Black Hills had 3 more articles in the media than Otter Tail. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Black Hills and 4 mentions for Otter Tail. Otter Tail's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Black Hills' score of 0.04 indicating that Black Hills is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Otter Tail and Black Hills tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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