XEL vs. EPD, CEG, NGG, ET, AEP, TRP, EXC, VST, CQP, and FTS
Should you be buying Xcel Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Xcel Energy include Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Constellation Energy (CEG), National Grid (NGG), Energy Transfer (ET), American Electric Power (AEP), TC Energy (TRP), Exelon (EXC), Vistra (VST), Cheniere Energy Partners (CQP), and Fortis (FTS). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
Xcel Energy vs.
Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) and Xcel Energy (NASDAQ:XEL) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Enterprise Products Partners had 1 more articles in the media than Xcel Energy. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners and 34 mentions for Xcel Energy. Xcel Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Enterprise Products Partners' score of 1.14 indicating that Xcel Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Xcel Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Enterprise Products Partners pays out 79.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Xcel Energy pays out 66.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enterprise Products Partners has increased its dividend for 27 consecutive years and Xcel Energy has increased its dividend for 22 consecutive years. Enterprise Products Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Xcel Energy has a net margin of 14.40% compared to Enterprise Products Partners' net margin of 10.49%. Enterprise Products Partners' return on equity of 20.48% beat Xcel Energy's return on equity.
Enterprise Products Partners currently has a consensus price target of $35.90, suggesting a potential upside of 7.04%. Xcel Energy has a consensus price target of $71.10, suggesting a potential upside of 1.94%. Given Enterprise Products Partners' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Enterprise Products Partners is more favorable than Xcel Energy.
26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.4% of Xcel Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Xcel Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Enterprise Products Partners received 918 more outperform votes than Xcel Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.27% of users gave Enterprise Products Partners an outperform vote while only 33.09% of users gave Xcel Energy an outperform vote.
Enterprise Products Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Xcel Energy. Enterprise Products Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xcel Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xcel Energy has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Enterprise Products Partners beats Xcel Energy on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:XEL) was last updated on 3/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
