AEP vs. EPD, CEG, ET, NGG, TRP, EXC, VST, XEL, CQP, and VG
Should you be buying American Electric Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Electric Power include Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Constellation Energy (CEG), Energy Transfer (ET), National Grid (NGG), TC Energy (TRP), Exelon (EXC), Vistra (VST), Xcel Energy (XEL), Cheniere Energy Partners (CQP), and Venture Global (VG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
American Electric Power vs.
Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) and American Electric Power (NASDAQ:AEP) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
American Electric Power has a net margin of 15.08% compared to Enterprise Products Partners' net margin of 10.49%. Enterprise Products Partners' return on equity of 20.48% beat American Electric Power's return on equity.
26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.2% of American Electric Power shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of American Electric Power shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Enterprise Products Partners has higher revenue and earnings than American Electric Power. Enterprise Products Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Electric Power, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Electric Power has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Enterprise Products Partners received 868 more outperform votes than American Electric Power when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.27% of users gave Enterprise Products Partners an outperform vote while only 55.81% of users gave American Electric Power an outperform vote.
Enterprise Products Partners currently has a consensus target price of $35.90, suggesting a potential upside of 6.57%. American Electric Power has a consensus target price of $99.92, suggesting a potential downside of 4.93%. Given Enterprise Products Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Enterprise Products Partners is more favorable than American Electric Power.
Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. American Electric Power pays an annual dividend of $3.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Enterprise Products Partners pays out 79.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. American Electric Power pays out 66.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enterprise Products Partners has increased its dividend for 27 consecutive years and American Electric Power has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Enterprise Products Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, American Electric Power had 3 more articles in the media than Enterprise Products Partners. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for American Electric Power and 31 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners. American Electric Power's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Enterprise Products Partners' score of 1.06 indicating that American Electric Power is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Enterprise Products Partners beats American Electric Power on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:AEP) was last updated on 3/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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