BEPC vs. ORA, CWEN, NEP, AY, RNW, ENLT, CEPU, VIST, WHD, and HP
Should you be buying Brookfield Renewable stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Renewable include Ormat Technologies (ORA), Clearway Energy (CWEN), NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure (AY), ReNew Energy Global (RNW), Enlight Renewable Energy (ENLT), Central Puerto (CEPU), Vista Energy (VIST), Cactus (WHD), and Helmerich & Payne (HP). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Ormat Technologies (NYSE:ORA) and Brookfield Renewable (NYSE:BEPC) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
Ormat Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $81.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.08%. Brookfield Renewable has a consensus target price of $34.00, indicating a potential upside of 45.99%. Given Ormat Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Brookfield Renewable is more favorable than Ormat Technologies.
95.5% of Ormat Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Brookfield Renewable shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Ormat Technologies shares are owned 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.
Ormat Technologies has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Renewable has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ormat Technologies received 277 more outperform votes than Brookfield Renewable when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.75% of users gave Ormat Technologies an outperform vote while only 54.17% of users gave Brookfield Renewable an outperform vote.
Ormat Technologies has a net margin of 15.00% compared to Ormat Technologies' net margin of 12.23%. Brookfield Renewable's return on equity of 5.09% beat Ormat Technologies' return on equity.
Ormat Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Brookfield Renewable pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Ormat Technologies pays out 23.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Renewable pays out -443.7% 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. Brookfield Renewable is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Brookfield Renewable had 3 more articles in the media than Ormat Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Brookfield Renewable and 3 mentions for Ormat Technologies. Ormat Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Brookfield Renewable's score of 0.78 indicating that Brookfield Renewable is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ormat Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brookfield Renewable. Brookfield Renewable is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ormat Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ormat Technologies beats Brookfield Renewable on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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