EXC vs. PCG, PEG, ED, XEL, WEC, AEE, CMS, LNT, NI, and EVRG
Should you be buying Exelon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Exelon include PG&E (PCG), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), Xcel Energy (XEL), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), Alliant Energy (LNT), NiSource (NI), and Evergy (EVRG). These companies are all part of the "electric & other services combined" industry.
PG&E (NYSE:PCG) and Exelon (NASDAQ:EXC) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
PG&E received 799 more outperform votes than Exelon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.25% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 45.80% of users gave Exelon an outperform vote.
Exelon has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PG&E. Exelon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PG&E, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
78.6% of PG&E shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.9% of Exelon shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of PG&E shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Exelon shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Exelon has a net margin of 10.72% compared to Exelon's net margin of 9.24%. Exelon's return on equity of 10.84% beat PG&E's return on equity.
PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Exelon pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. PG&E pays out 3.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Exelon pays out 65.2% 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. Exelon has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Exelon is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
PG&E has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Exelon has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PG&E presently has a consensus target price of $18.78, indicating a potential upside of 14.22%. Exelon has a consensus target price of $39.09, indicating a potential upside of 7.33%. Given Exelon's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PG&E is more favorable than Exelon.
In the previous week, PG&E had 5 more articles in the media than Exelon. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for PG&E and 19 mentions for Exelon. PG&E's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Exelon's score of 0.15 indicating that Exelon is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
PG&E beats Exelon on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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