NGG vs. SRE, AEP, D, EXC, PCG, PEG, ED, XEL, BCE, and CHT
Should you be buying National Grid stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Grid include Sempra (SRE), American Electric Power (AEP), Dominion Energy (D), Exelon (EXC), PG&E (PCG), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), Xcel Energy (XEL), BCE (BCE), and Chunghwa Telecom (CHT). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Sempra (NYSE:SRE) and National Grid (NYSE:NGG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Sempra has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Grid has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
National Grid received 40 more outperform votes than Sempra when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.97% of users gave Sempra an outperform vote while only 58.78% of users gave National Grid an outperform vote.
Sempra pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. National Grid pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Sempra pays out 51.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sempra has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years.
National Grid has higher revenue and earnings than Sempra.
89.7% of Sempra shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.7% of National Grid shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Sempra shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sempra has a net margin of 18.26% compared to Sempra's net margin of 0.00%. National Grid's return on equity of 9.45% beat Sempra's return on equity.
Sempra currently has a consensus price target of $82.14, indicating a potential upside of 15.17%. Given National Grid's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sempra is more favorable than National Grid.
In the previous week, Sempra had 8 more articles in the media than National Grid. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Sempra and 5 mentions for National Grid. National Grid's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Sempra's score of 0.41 indicating that Sempra is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Sempra beats National Grid on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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