OTTR vs. ORA, PEGI, AY, EE, PNW, OGE, IDA, POR, ALE, and PNM
Should you be buying Otter Tail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Otter Tail include Ormat Technologies (ORA), Pattern Energy Group (PEGI), Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure (AY), Excelerate Energy (EE), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), ALLETE (ALE), and PNM Resources (PNM).
Ormat Technologies (NYSE:ORA) and Otter Tail (NASDAQ:OTTR) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings and profitability.
Otter Tail has higher revenue and earnings than Ormat Technologies. Otter Tail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ormat Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Otter Tail had 6 more articles in the media than Ormat Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Otter Tail and 5 mentions for Ormat Technologies. Otter Tail's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Ormat Technologies' score of 0.61 indicating that Ormat Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ormat Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $83.50, suggesting a potential upside of 6.83%. Given Otter Tail's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Ormat Technologies is more favorable than Otter Tail.
Ormat Technologies has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Otter Tail has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
95.5% of Ormat Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.3% of Otter Tail shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Ormat Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Otter Tail shares are owned by company 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.
Ormat Technologies received 42 more outperform votes than Otter Tail when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.10% of users gave Otter Tail an outperform vote while only 56.59% of users gave Ormat Technologies an outperform vote.
Ormat Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Otter Tail pays an annual dividend of $1.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Ormat Technologies pays out 21.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Otter Tail pays out 25.7% 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 11 consecutive years. Otter Tail is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Otter Tail has a net margin of 22.55% compared to Otter Tail's net margin of 15.43%. Ormat Technologies' return on equity of 21.58% beat Otter Tail's return on equity.
Summary
Otter Tail beats Ormat Technologies on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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