AES vs. LNT, PNW, NRG, CMS, CNP, ORA, GNE, MGEE, AEP, and SRE
Should you be buying AES stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AES include Alliant Energy (LNT), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), NRG Energy (NRG), CMS Energy (CMS), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Ormat Technologies (ORA), Genie Energy (GNE), MGE Energy (MGEE), American Electric Power (AEP), and Sempra (SRE).
Alliant Energy (NASDAQ:LNT) and AES (NYSE:AES) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and community ranking.
Alliant Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. AES pays an annual dividend of $0.69 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Alliant Energy pays out 69.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AES pays out 95.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alliant Energy has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years and AES has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
Alliant Energy currently has a consensus target price of $51.63, suggesting a potential downside of 7.83%. AES has a consensus target price of $22.75, suggesting a potential upside of 29.93%. Given Alliant Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AES is more favorable than Alliant Energy.
AES received 364 more outperform votes than Alliant Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.72% of users gave AES an outperform vote while only 33.82% of users gave Alliant Energy an outperform vote.
Alliant Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AES. Alliant Energy 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, AES had 2 more articles in the media than Alliant Energy. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for AES and 15 mentions for Alliant Energy. AES's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Alliant Energy's score of 0.36 indicating that Alliant Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
79.9% of Alliant Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of AES shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Alliant Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of AES shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Alliant Energy has a net margin of 17.53% compared to Alliant Energy's net margin of 4.40%. Alliant Energy's return on equity of 36.23% beat AES's return on equity.
Alliant Energy has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AES has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AES beats Alliant Energy on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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