AES vs. EVRG, NI, LNT, SBS, AGR, WTRG, NRG, PNW, VIV, and OGE
Should you be buying AES stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AES include Evergy (EVRG), NiSource (NI), Alliant Energy (LNT), Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP (SBS), Avangrid (AGR), Essential Utilities (WTRG), NRG Energy (NRG), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), Telefônica Brasil (VIV), and OGE Energy (OGE). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Evergy (NYSE:EVRG) and AES (NYSE:AES) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.
87.2% of Evergy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of AES shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Evergy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of AES shares are held 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.
Evergy has a net margin of 13.28% compared to Evergy's net margin of 2.12%. Evergy's return on equity of 38.76% beat AES's return on equity.
Evergy has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AES has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AES received 260 more outperform votes than Evergy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.81% of users gave AES an outperform vote while only 58.65% of users gave Evergy an outperform vote.
Evergy presently has a consensus price target of $57.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.45%. AES has a consensus price target of $21.57, indicating a potential upside of 23.97%. Given Evergy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AES is more favorable than Evergy.
Evergy pays an annual dividend of $2.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. AES pays an annual dividend of $0.69 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Evergy pays out 80.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AES pays out 209.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AES has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Evergy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Evergy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AES. Evergy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AES, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Evergy had 86 more articles in the media than AES. MarketBeat recorded 112 mentions for Evergy and 26 mentions for AES. Evergy's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat AES's score of 0.14 indicating that AES is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AES beats Evergy on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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