CNP vs. SRE, D, PCG, PEG, ED, WEC, DTE, AEE, CMS, and NI
Should you be buying CenterPoint Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CenterPoint Energy include Sempra (SRE), Dominion Energy (D), PG&E (PCG), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), DTE Energy (DTE), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
CenterPoint Energy vs.
CenterPoint Energy (NYSE:CNP) and Sempra (NYSE:SRE) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
CenterPoint Energy currently has a consensus target price of $36.04, indicating a potential downside of 2.90%. Sempra has a consensus target price of $80.77, indicating a potential upside of 5.32%. Given Sempra's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sempra is more favorable than CenterPoint Energy.
Sempra has higher revenue and earnings than CenterPoint Energy. Sempra is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CenterPoint Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CenterPoint Energy has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sempra has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sempra had 2 more articles in the media than CenterPoint Energy. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Sempra and 15 mentions for CenterPoint Energy. Sempra's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat CenterPoint Energy's score of 0.88 indicating that Sempra is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CenterPoint Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Sempra pays an annual dividend of $2.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. CenterPoint Energy pays out 59.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sempra pays out 56.7% 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. CenterPoint Energy has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Sempra has raised its dividend for 22 consecutive years. Sempra is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
91.8% of CenterPoint Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.7% of Sempra shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of CenterPoint Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Sempra shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sempra has a net margin of 22.63% compared to CenterPoint Energy's net margin of 11.79%. CenterPoint Energy's return on equity of 10.02% beat Sempra's return on equity.
Sempra received 29 more outperform votes than CenterPoint Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.34% of users gave Sempra an outperform vote while only 54.78% of users gave CenterPoint Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Sempra beats CenterPoint Energy on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CNP) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
