POR vs. IDA, OTTR, PNM, OGE, HE, PNW, ENIC, AQN, ELP, and BKH
Should you be buying Portland General Electric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Portland General Electric include IDACORP (IDA), Otter Tail (OTTR), PNM Resources (PNM), OGE Energy (OGE), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), Enel Chile (ENIC), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP), and Black Hills (BKH). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Portland General Electric (NYSE:POR) and IDACORP (NYSE:IDA) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Portland General Electric has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDACORP has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
89.1% of IDACORP shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Portland General Electric shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of IDACORP shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Portland General Electric received 158 more outperform votes than IDACORP when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.62% of users gave IDACORP an outperform vote while only 46.29% of users gave Portland General Electric an outperform vote.
IDACORP has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Portland General Electric. Portland General Electric is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IDACORP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Portland General Electric presently has a consensus price target of $45.13, suggesting a potential upside of 5.43%. IDACORP has a consensus price target of $93.80, suggesting a potential downside of 0.85%. Given Portland General Electric's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Portland General Electric is more favorable than IDACORP.
IDACORP has a net margin of 14.79% compared to Portland General Electric's net margin of 7.80%. IDACORP's return on equity of 9.06% beat Portland General Electric's return on equity.
In the previous week, Portland General Electric had 13 more articles in the media than IDACORP. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Portland General Electric and 6 mentions for IDACORP. Portland General Electric's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat IDACORP's score of 0.13 indicating that Portland General Electric is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Portland General Electric pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. IDACORP pays an annual dividend of $3.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Portland General Electric pays out 72.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IDACORP pays out 64.6% 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.
Summary
Portland General Electric and IDACORP tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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