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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. Its Competitors

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

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 3.8%. Otter Tail pays out 30.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pinnacle West Capital pays out 73.8% 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. Otter Tail has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years.

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

In the previous week, Pinnacle West Capital had 8 more articles in the media than Otter Tail. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Pinnacle West Capital and 12 mentions for Otter Tail. Pinnacle West Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Otter Tail's score of 1.14 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
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Pinnacle West Capital
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Otter Tail presently has a consensus target price of $83.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.42%. Pinnacle West Capital has a consensus target price of $96.42, suggesting a potential upside of 3.50%. Given Otter Tail's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly 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)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Pinnacle West Capital
1 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.27

Otter Tail has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinnacle West Capital has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Otter Tail has a net margin of 21.82% compared to Pinnacle West Capital's net margin of 10.96%. Otter Tail's return on equity of 16.85% beat Pinnacle West Capital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Otter Tail21.82% 16.85% 7.80%
Pinnacle West Capital 10.96%8.45%2.12%

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$1.33B2.43$301.66M$6.8011.36
Pinnacle West Capital$5.12B2.17$608.81M$4.8519.21

Summary

Otter Tail beats Pinnacle West Capital on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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OTTR vs. The Competition

MetricOtter TailUTIL IndustryUtilities SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.24B$27.15B$17.89B$10.54B
Dividend Yield2.72%3.44%4.59%4.81%
P/E Ratio11.3619.7258.1627.13
Price / Sales2.434.2831.35179.32
Price / Cash7.919.4119.3360.81
Price / Book1.942.412.296.52
Net Income$301.66M$1.43B$748.50M$276.93M
7 Day Performance2.96%3.20%1.35%1.93%
1 Month Performance-8.19%6.09%8.95%2.19%
1 Year Performance-1.64%17.09%55.08%34.62%

Otter Tail Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
OTTR
Otter Tail
2.2628 of 5 stars
$77.27
+0.7%
$83.00
+7.4%
-1.6%$3.24B$1.33B11.362,133News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Revision
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
4.1332 of 5 stars
$90.99
+0.9%
$95.91
+5.4%
+6.0%$10.77B$5.12B18.766,403Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
OGE
OGE Energy
4.0671 of 5 stars
$46.14
+0.5%
$47.00
+1.9%
+12.9%$9.25B$2.99B18.912,291News Coverage
Positive News
IDA
IDACORP
4.0023 of 5 stars
$133.66
+1.0%
$123.29
-7.8%
+29.8%$7.15B$1.83B23.532,141News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Increase
POR
Portland General Electric
1.8643 of 5 stars
$43.71
+1.3%
$45.40
+3.9%
-7.8%$4.73B$3.44B16.132,915News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Revision
ALE
Allete
3.6071 of 5 stars
$67.30
+0.1%
N/A+4.5%$3.90B$1.53B21.231,616News Coverage
Positive News
Options Volume
MGEE
MGE Energy
4.134 of 5 stars
$82.89
+0.3%
$79.00
-4.7%
-9.5%$3.02B$676.94M23.03700News Coverage
Positive News
HE
Hawaiian Electric Industries
1.4868 of 5 stars
$11.26
+0.9%
$11.94
+6.0%
+11.7%$1.93B$3.22B-11.152,602Positive News
ARRY
Array Technologies
2.4097 of 5 stars
$8.93
-1.5%
$9.23
+3.3%
+28.5%$1.39B$915.81M-5.131,021News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
UTL
Unitil
3.5196 of 5 stars
$46.80
0.0%
$55.00
+17.5%
-18.3%$827.86M$494.80M16.08520Short Interest ↑
NEE
NextEra Energy
4.626 of 5 stars
$82.13
+2.6%
$85.08
+3.6%
+0.2%$164.87B$24.75B28.729,300Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision

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