LNT vs. NI, CMS, AEE, ALE, NWE, WEC, PEG, ED, XEL, and EXC
Should you be buying Alliant Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliant Energy include NiSource (NI), CMS Energy (CMS), Ameren (AEE), ALLETE (ALE), NorthWestern (NWE), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), Xcel Energy (XEL), and Exelon (EXC). These companies are all part of the "electric & other services combined" industry.
Alliant Energy vs.
Alliant Energy (NASDAQ:LNT) and NiSource (NYSE:NI) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Alliant Energy has a net margin of 15.60% compared to NiSource's net margin of 11.72%. NiSource's return on equity of 11.14% beat Alliant Energy's return on equity.
Alliant Energy has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NiSource has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
75.9% of Alliant Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.6% of NiSource shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Alliant Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of NiSource shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Alliant Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.81 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. NiSource pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Alliant Energy pays out 69.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NiSource pays out 68.0% 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. NiSource is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Alliant Energy presently has a consensus price target of $58.44, indicating a potential upside of 12.44%. NiSource has a consensus price target of $29.17, indicating a potential upside of 8.99%. Given Alliant Energy's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alliant Energy is more favorable than NiSource.
NiSource has higher revenue and earnings than Alliant Energy. NiSource is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alliant Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NiSource received 394 more outperform votes than Alliant Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.20% of users gave NiSource an outperform vote while only 32.61% of users gave Alliant Energy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Alliant Energy had 3 more articles in the media than NiSource. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Alliant Energy and 4 mentions for NiSource. NiSource's average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Alliant Energy's score of 1.11 indicating that NiSource is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
NiSource beats Alliant Energy on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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