DUK vs. EXC, PCG, PEG, ED, XEL, WEC, AEE, SO, NGG, and SRE
Should you be buying Duke Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Duke Energy include Exelon (EXC), PG&E (PCG), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), Xcel Energy (XEL), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Ameren (AEE), Southern (SO), National Grid (NGG), and Sempra (SRE). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Exelon (NASDAQ:EXC) and Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Exelon presently has a consensus price target of $38.92, indicating a potential upside of 4.28%. Duke Energy has a consensus price target of $100.62, indicating a potential upside of 2.97%. Given Duke Energy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Exelon is more favorable than Duke Energy.
Exelon has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Duke Energy has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Exelon has a net margin of 10.72% compared to Exelon's net margin of 9.78%. Duke Energy's return on equity of 9.40% beat Exelon's return on equity.
80.9% of Exelon shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.3% of Duke Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Exelon shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Duke Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Exelon pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Duke Energy pays an annual dividend of $4.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Exelon pays out 65.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Duke Energy pays out 115.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Exelon has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Duke Energy has increased its dividend for 19 consecutive years. Duke Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Duke Energy received 536 more outperform votes than Exelon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.60% of users gave Duke Energy an outperform vote while only 45.45% of users gave Exelon an outperform vote.
Duke Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Exelon. Exelon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Duke Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Duke Energy had 8 more articles in the media than Exelon. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Duke Energy and 15 mentions for Exelon. Duke Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Exelon's score of 0.54 indicating that Exelon is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Duke Energy beats Exelon on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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