CMS vs. PCG, SRE, D, PEG, 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 PG&E (PCG), Sempra (SRE), Dominion Energy (D), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), 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 (NYSE:CMS) and PG&E (NYSE:PCG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
CMS Energy presently has a consensus price target of $65.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.24%. PG&E has a consensus price target of $20.40, suggesting a potential upside of 13.14%. Given PG&E's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PG&E is more favorable than CMS Energy.
PG&E received 318 more outperform votes than CMS Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.33% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 62.60% of users gave CMS Energy an outperform vote.
CMS Energy has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PG&E has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CMS Energy has a net margin of 13.19% compared to PG&E's net margin of 10.05%. CMS Energy's return on equity of 12.83% beat PG&E's return on equity.
PG&E has higher revenue and earnings than CMS Energy. PG&E 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, PG&E had 8 more articles in the media than CMS Energy. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for PG&E and 34 mentions for CMS Energy. CMS Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat PG&E's score of 0.51 indicating that CMS Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CMS Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. CMS Energy pays out 62.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PG&E pays out 3.6% 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.
93.6% of CMS Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of PG&E shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of CMS Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of PG&E 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.
Summary
CMS Energy beats PG&E on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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