MGEE vs. PNW, OGE, IDA, POR, ALE, OTTR, HE, ARRY, UTL, and NEE
Should you be buying MGE Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MGE Energy include Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), ALLETE (ALE), Otter Tail (OTTR), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), Array Technologies (ARRY), Unitil (UTL), and NextEra Energy (NEE). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.
MGE Energy vs. Its Competitors
Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) and MGE Energy (NASDAQ:MGEE) are both utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
Pinnacle West Capital has higher revenue and earnings than MGE Energy. Pinnacle West Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MGE Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pinnacle West Capital has a beta of 0.43, suggesting that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MGE Energy has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MGE Energy has a net margin of 17.70% compared to Pinnacle West Capital's net margin of 12.26%. MGE Energy's return on equity of 10.18% beat Pinnacle West Capital's return on equity.
Pinnacle West Capital currently has a consensus price target of $97.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.74%. MGE Energy has a consensus price target of $74.00, indicating a potential downside of 16.99%. Given Pinnacle West Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Pinnacle West Capital is more favorable than MGE Energy.
In the previous week, Pinnacle West Capital had 8 more articles in the media than MGE Energy. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Pinnacle West Capital and 1 mentions for MGE Energy. MGE Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Pinnacle West Capital's score of 1.58 indicating that MGE Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
91.5% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of MGE Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of MGE Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pinnacle West Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. MGE Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Pinnacle West Capital pays out 71.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MGE Energy pays out 50.8% 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. MGE Energy has increased its dividend for 49 consecutive years.
Pinnacle West Capital received 176 more outperform votes than MGE Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.14% of users gave MGE Energy an outperform vote while only 41.44% of users gave Pinnacle West Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Pinnacle West Capital beats MGE Energy on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:MGEE) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
