CMS vs. SRE, D, PEG, PCG, ED, WEC, DTE, AEE, CNP, and NI
Should you be buying CMS Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CMS Energy include Sempra (SRE), Dominion Energy (D), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), PG&E (PCG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), DTE Energy (DTE), Ameren (AEE), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
CMS Energy vs. Its Competitors
Sempra (NYSE:SRE) and CMS Energy (NYSE:CMS) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.
CMS Energy received 75 more outperform votes than Sempra when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.47% of users gave CMS Energy an outperform vote while only 60.27% of users gave Sempra an outperform vote.
Sempra currently has a consensus target price of $80.75, indicating a potential upside of 6.40%. CMS Energy has a consensus target price of $77.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.09%. Given CMS Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CMS Energy is more favorable than Sempra.
Sempra has higher revenue and earnings than CMS Energy. Sempra is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CMS Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sempra had 3 more articles in the media than CMS Energy. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Sempra and 8 mentions for CMS Energy. Sempra's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat CMS Energy's score of 1.29 indicating that Sempra is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sempra pays an annual dividend of $2.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. CMS Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Sempra pays out 56.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CMS Energy pays out 64.4% 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. Sempra has increased its dividend for 22 consecutive years and CMS Energy has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Sempra is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Sempra has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CMS Energy has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
89.7% of Sempra shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of CMS Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Sempra shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of CMS Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sempra has a net margin of 22.63% compared to CMS Energy's net margin of 13.35%. CMS Energy's return on equity of 12.02% beat Sempra's return on equity.
Summary
Sempra beats CMS Energy on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:CMS) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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