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$76.66 -0.67 (-0.87%)
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OTTR vs. PNW, OGE, IDA, POR, ALE, MGEE, HE, ARRY, UTL, and NEE

Should you be buying Otter Tail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Otter Tail include Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), ALLETE (ALE), MGE Energy (MGEE), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), Array Technologies (ARRY), Unitil (UTL), and NextEra Energy (NEE). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.

Otter Tail vs.

Otter Tail (NASDAQ:OTTR) and Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) are both utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.

Otter Tail pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Pinnacle West Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Otter Tail pays out 29.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pinnacle West Capital pays out 71.2% 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. Otter Tail has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years.

Pinnacle West Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Otter Tail. Otter Tail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pinnacle West Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Otter Tail$1.32B2.43$294.19M$7.0210.92
Pinnacle West Capital$5.21B2.06$501.56M$5.0317.86

Pinnacle West Capital received 141 more outperform votes than Otter Tail when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.76% of users gave Otter Tail an outperform vote while only 41.44% of users gave Pinnacle West Capital an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Otter TailOutperform Votes
251
59.76%
Underperform Votes
169
40.24%
Pinnacle West CapitalOutperform Votes
392
41.44%
Underperform Votes
554
58.56%

61.3% of Otter Tail shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Otter Tail shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Otter Tail has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinnacle West Capital has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Otter Tail has a net margin of 22.67% compared to Pinnacle West Capital's net margin of 12.26%. Otter Tail's return on equity of 18.96% beat Pinnacle West Capital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Otter Tail22.67% 18.96% 8.62%
Pinnacle West Capital 12.26%9.60%2.43%

Otter Tail currently has a consensus price target of $83.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.27%. Pinnacle West Capital has a consensus price target of $95.65, suggesting a potential upside of 6.44%. Given Otter Tail's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Otter Tail is more favorable than Pinnacle West Capital.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Otter Tail
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Pinnacle West Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.30

In the previous week, Pinnacle West Capital had 15 more articles in the media than Otter Tail. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Pinnacle West Capital and 9 mentions for Otter Tail. Pinnacle West Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Otter Tail's score of 1.00 indicating that Pinnacle West Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Otter Tail
9 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Pinnacle West Capital
21 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Otter Tail beats Pinnacle West Capital on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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OTTR vs. The Competition

MetricOtter TailElectric services IndustryUtilities SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.21B$14.53B$16.11B$8.39B
Dividend Yield2.63%4.99%5.71%4.11%
P/E Ratio10.6919.4420.2719.70
Price / Sales2.4316.0021.48121.79
Price / Cash8.3310.0718.7134.62
Price / Book1.922.372.114.50
Net Income$294.19M$690.28M$661.92M$248.22M
7 Day Performance-4.06%-1.23%0.81%-0.80%
1 Month Performance-2.90%10.61%2.64%11.52%
1 Year Performance-14.94%42.75%8.86%8.99%

Otter Tail Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
OTTR
Otter Tail
1.5891 of 5 stars
$76.66
-0.9%
$83.00
+8.3%
-16.1%$3.21B$1.32B10.692,420
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
3.6879 of 5 stars
$92.44
+0.8%
$95.75
+3.6%
+15.5%$11.04B$5.21B17.5180News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
OGE
OGE Energy
3.9833 of 5 stars
$44.63
+0.6%
$46.40
+4.0%
+19.8%$8.99B$3.14B20.292,240Positive News
Dividend Announcement
IDA
IDACORP
4.7197 of 5 stars
$117.18
+1.4%
$123.57
+5.5%
+18.5%$6.33B$1.81B21.382,070News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
POR
Portland General Electric
3.1548 of 5 stars
$42.71
+0.0%
$45.60
+6.8%
-6.6%$4.68B$3.44B14.192,870Positive News
ALE
ALLETE
2.549 of 5 stars
$65.11
0.0%
N/A+3.1%$3.78B$1.53B21.001,490News Coverage
Positive News
MGEE
MGE Energy
3.1343 of 5 stars
$93.48
+1.0%
$80.00
-14.4%
+11.5%$3.42B$704.58M28.59700Positive News
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
HE
Hawaiian Electric Industries
2.8306 of 5 stars
$10.69
+0.7%
$12.00
+12.3%
-5.3%$1.84B$3.17B-0.903,760Positive News
ARRY
Array Technologies
3.2016 of 5 stars
$7.26
-5.5%
$9.60
+32.2%
-46.9%$1.11B$1.06B-7.48470Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
UTL
Unitil
2.6234 of 5 stars
$55.10
+1.3%
$55.00
-0.2%
+0.7%$895.43M$486.90M18.81520Positive News
NEE
NextEra Energy
4.9255 of 5 stars
$73.78
-1.6%
$83.46
+13.1%
-12.3%$151.89B$25.27B21.8915,300Positive News
Dividend Announcement
Gap Down

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