KEN vs. HE, EDN, TAC, PAM, PNM, OTTR, BKH, ELP, ENIC, and AQN
Should you be buying Kenon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kenon include Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN), TransAlta (TAC), Pampa Energía (PAM), PNM Resources (PNM), Otter Tail (OTTR), Black Hills (BKH), Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP), Enel Chile (ENIC), and Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Kenon (NYSE:KEN) and Hawaiian Electric Industries (NYSE:HE) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Hawaiian Electric Industries received 264 more outperform votes than Kenon when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.04% of users gave Kenon an outperform vote while only 50.42% of users gave Hawaiian Electric Industries an outperform vote.
Kenon has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hawaiian Electric Industries has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hawaiian Electric Industries has a consensus target price of $11.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.65%. Given Hawaiian Electric Industries' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Hawaiian Electric Industries is more favorable than Kenon.
Hawaiian Electric Industries has a net margin of 5.45% compared to Kenon's net margin of -34.10%. Hawaiian Electric Industries' return on equity of 9.99% beat Kenon's return on equity.
13.4% of Kenon shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of Hawaiian Electric Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Kenon shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Hawaiian Electric Industries shares are owned 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.
Hawaiian Electric Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Kenon. Kenon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hawaiian Electric Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hawaiian Electric Industries had 4 more articles in the media than Kenon. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Hawaiian Electric Industries and 4 mentions for Kenon. Kenon's average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat Hawaiian Electric Industries' score of -0.21 indicating that Kenon is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Hawaiian Electric Industries beats Kenon on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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