ALE vs. PNW, OGE, IDA, POR, OTTR, MGEE, HE, ARRY, UTL, and NEE
Should you be buying ALLETE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ALLETE include Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), Otter Tail (OTTR), 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.
ALLETE vs. Its Competitors
Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) and ALLETE (NYSE:ALE) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
91.5% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.6% of ALLETE shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of ALLETE shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Pinnacle West Capital presently has a consensus target price of $97.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.74%. Given Pinnacle West Capital's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Pinnacle West Capital is more favorable than ALLETE.
Pinnacle West Capital received 105 more outperform votes than ALLETE when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 49.57% of users gave ALLETE an outperform vote while only 41.44% of users gave Pinnacle West Capital an outperform vote.
Pinnacle West Capital has a net margin of 12.26% compared to ALLETE's net margin of 11.72%. Pinnacle West Capital's return on equity of 9.60% beat ALLETE's return on equity.
Pinnacle West Capital has higher revenue and earnings than ALLETE. Pinnacle West Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ALLETE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pinnacle West Capital has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ALLETE has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pinnacle West Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. ALLETE pays an annual dividend of $2.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Pinnacle West Capital pays out 71.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ALLETE pays out 91.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ALLETE has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years. ALLETE is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Pinnacle West Capital had 1 more articles in the media than ALLETE. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Pinnacle West Capital and 4 mentions for ALLETE. ALLETE's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Pinnacle West Capital's score of 1.56 indicating that ALLETE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Pinnacle West Capital and ALLETE tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ALE) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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