CNP vs. PCG, SRE, D, 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 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), CMS Energy (CMS), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
PG&E (NYSE:PCG) and CenterPoint Energy (NYSE:CNP) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
PG&E received 412 more outperform votes than CenterPoint Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.33% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 56.24% of users gave CenterPoint Energy an outperform vote.
PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. CenterPoint Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. PG&E pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CenterPoint Energy pays out 56.3% 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.
PG&E has higher revenue and earnings than CenterPoint Energy. PG&E 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 net margin of 11.03% compared to CenterPoint Energy's net margin of 10.22%. CenterPoint Energy's return on equity of 11.91% beat PG&E's return on equity.
78.6% of PG&E shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of CenterPoint Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of PG&E shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of CenterPoint Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PG&E has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CenterPoint Energy has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PG&E had 23 more articles in the media than CenterPoint Energy. MarketBeat recorded 47 mentions for PG&E and 24 mentions for CenterPoint Energy. PG&E's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat CenterPoint Energy's score of 0.51 indicating that CenterPoint Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PG&E currently has a consensus target price of $20.40, suggesting a potential upside of 13.14%. CenterPoint Energy has a consensus target price of $30.60, suggesting a potential upside of 4.22%. Given CenterPoint Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe PG&E is more favorable than CenterPoint Energy.
Summary
PG&E beats CenterPoint Energy on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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