DTE vs. PCG, SRE, D, PEG, ED, WEC, AEE, CMS, CNP, and NI
Should you be buying DTE Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DTE Energy include PG&E (PCG), Sempra (SRE), Dominion Energy (D), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
PG&E (NYSE:PCG) and DTE Energy (NYSE:DTE) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
PG&E currently has a consensus price target of $20.40, suggesting a potential upside of 12.71%. DTE Energy has a consensus price target of $118.40, suggesting a potential upside of 0.52%. Given DTE Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PG&E is more favorable than DTE Energy.
PG&E received 397 more outperform votes than DTE Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.33% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 58.39% of users gave DTE Energy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, PG&E had 16 more articles in the media than DTE Energy. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for PG&E and 29 mentions for DTE Energy. PG&E's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat DTE Energy's score of 0.51 indicating that DTE Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PG&E has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DTE Energy has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PG&E has higher revenue and earnings than DTE Energy. PG&E is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DTE Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. DTE Energy pays an annual dividend of $4.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. PG&E pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DTE Energy pays out 66.8% 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. DTE Energy has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years. DTE Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
DTE Energy has a net margin of 10.36% compared to DTE Energy's net margin of 10.05%. PG&E's return on equity of 11.53% beat DTE Energy's return on equity.
78.6% of PG&E shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.1% of DTE Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of PG&E shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of DTE Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
PG&E beats DTE Energy on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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