EBR.B vs. VST, AEP, D, ETR, NRG, DTE, PPL, CNP, FTS, and ES
Should you be buying CENTRAIS ELETRI-S stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CENTRAIS ELETRI-S include Vistra (VST), American Electric Power (AEP), Dominion Energy (D), Entergy (ETR), NRG Energy (NRG), DTE Energy (DTE), PPL (PPL), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Fortis (FTS), and Eversource Energy (ES). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
CENTRAIS ELETRI-S vs. Its Competitors
Vistra (NYSE:VST) and CENTRAIS ELETRI-S (NYSE:EBR.B) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Vistra pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. CENTRAIS ELETRI-S pays an annual dividend of $0.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. Vistra pays out 14.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Vistra has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
Vistra has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CENTRAIS ELETRI-S has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
90.9% of Vistra shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Vistra 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.
CENTRAIS ELETRI-S has a net margin of 26.50% compared to Vistra's net margin of 12.51%. Vistra's return on equity of 57.63% beat CENTRAIS ELETRI-S's return on equity.
Vistra presently has a consensus price target of $172.69, indicating a potential downside of 0.57%. Given Vistra's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Vistra is more favorable than CENTRAIS ELETRI-S.
Vistra received 187 more outperform votes than CENTRAIS ELETRI-S when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.24% of users gave Vistra an outperform vote while only 63.78% of users gave CENTRAIS ELETRI-S an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Vistra had 23 more articles in the media than CENTRAIS ELETRI-S. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Vistra and 0 mentions for CENTRAIS ELETRI-S. Vistra's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat CENTRAIS ELETRI-S's score of 0.00 indicating that Vistra is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vistra has higher revenue and earnings than CENTRAIS ELETRI-S.
Summary
Vistra beats CENTRAIS ELETRI-S on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:EBR.B) was last updated on 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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