OGE vs. PNW, IDA, POR, OTTR, PNM, PPL, ES, FE, ETR, and BEP
Should you be buying OGE Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OGE Energy include Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), Otter Tail (OTTR), PNM Resources (PNM), PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Entergy (ETR), and Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
OGE Energy (NYSE:OGE) and Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
OGE Energy has a net margin of 15.59% compared to Pinnacle West Capital's net margin of 10.68%. OGE Energy's return on equity of 9.37% beat Pinnacle West Capital's return on equity.
71.8% of OGE Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of OGE Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
OGE Energy has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinnacle West Capital has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
OGE Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Pinnacle West Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. OGE Energy pays out 80.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pinnacle West Capital pays out 79.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, OGE Energy had 16 more articles in the media than Pinnacle West Capital. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for OGE Energy and 14 mentions for Pinnacle West Capital. Pinnacle West Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat OGE Energy's score of 0.34 indicating that Pinnacle West Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
OGE Energy presently has a consensus target price of $33.40, indicating a potential downside of 4.71%. Pinnacle West Capital has a consensus target price of $73.42, indicating a potential downside of 2.05%. Given Pinnacle West Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Pinnacle West Capital is more favorable than OGE Energy.
Pinnacle West Capital has higher revenue and earnings than OGE Energy. OGE Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pinnacle West Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pinnacle West Capital received 92 more outperform votes than OGE Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.96% of users gave OGE Energy an outperform vote while only 42.11% of users gave Pinnacle West Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Pinnacle West Capital beats OGE Energy on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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