FE vs. ETR, ES, PPL, EIX, PNW, OGE, SO, DTE, FTS, and CNP
Should you be buying FirstEnergy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FirstEnergy include Entergy (ETR), Eversource Energy (ES), PPL (PPL), Edison International (EIX), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), Southern (SO), DTE Energy (DTE), Fortis (FTS), and CenterPoint Energy (CNP). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Entergy (NYSE:ETR) and FirstEnergy (NYSE:FE) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
Entergy presently has a consensus target price of $109.45, indicating a potential upside of 1.27%. FirstEnergy has a consensus target price of $39.80, indicating a potential upside of 1.43%. Given Entergy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe FirstEnergy is more favorable than Entergy.
88.1% of Entergy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.4% of FirstEnergy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Entergy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of FirstEnergy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Entergy has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FirstEnergy has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
FirstEnergy received 156 more outperform votes than Entergy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.41% of users gave FirstEnergy an outperform vote while only 49.04% of users gave Entergy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, FirstEnergy had 5 more articles in the media than Entergy. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for FirstEnergy and 7 mentions for Entergy. FirstEnergy's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Entergy's score of 0.52 indicating that Entergy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Entergy has a net margin of 17.75% compared to Entergy's net margin of 8.22%. Entergy's return on equity of 12.45% beat FirstEnergy's return on equity.
Entergy pays an annual dividend of $4.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. FirstEnergy pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Entergy pays out 45.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FirstEnergy pays out 94.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Entergy has raised its dividend for 9 consecutive years and FirstEnergy has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Entergy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Entergy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than FirstEnergy. Entergy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FirstEnergy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Entergy beats FirstEnergy on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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