CMS vs. ATO, CNP, EBR, FTS, AEE, PPL, VIV, NRG, ES, and AGR
Should you be buying CMS Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CMS Energy include Atmos Energy (ATO), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), Fortis (FTS), Ameren (AEE), PPL (PPL), Telefônica Brasil (VIV), NRG Energy (NRG), Eversource Energy (ES), and Avangrid (AGR). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Atmos Energy (NYSE:ATO) and CMS Energy (NYSE:CMS) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
Atmos Energy has a net margin of 23.43% compared to Atmos Energy's net margin of 13.19%. Atmos Energy's return on equity of 12.83% beat CMS Energy's return on equity.
Atmos Energy pays an annual dividend of $3.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. CMS Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Atmos Energy pays out 51.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CMS Energy pays out 62.8% 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. Atmos Energy has raised its dividend for 40 consecutive years and CMS Energy has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
CMS Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Atmos Energy. CMS Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atmos Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atmos Energy has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CMS Energy has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
90.2% of Atmos Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of CMS Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Atmos Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of CMS Energy shares are held by company 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.
CMS Energy received 77 more outperform votes than Atmos Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.55% of users gave Atmos Energy an outperform vote while only 62.57% of users gave CMS Energy an outperform vote.
Atmos Energy currently has a consensus target price of $124.33, indicating a potential upside of 4.37%. CMS Energy has a consensus target price of $63.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.70%. Given Atmos Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CMS Energy is more favorable than Atmos Energy.
In the previous week, CMS Energy had 34 more articles in the media than Atmos Energy. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for CMS Energy and 7 mentions for Atmos Energy. CMS Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Atmos Energy's score of 0.80 indicating that Atmos Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
CMS Energy beats Atmos Energy on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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