FTS vs. PPL, CNP, EBR, ES, NRG, FE, DTE, ETR, AGR, and EIX
Should you be buying Fortis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortis include PPL (PPL), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), Eversource Energy (ES), NRG Energy (NRG), FirstEnergy (FE), DTE Energy (DTE), Entergy (ETR), Avangrid (AGR), and Edison International (EIX). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Fortis (NYSE:FTS) and PPL (NYSE:PPL) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
PPL received 296 more outperform votes than Fortis when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.72% of users gave PPL an outperform vote while only 53.55% of users gave Fortis an outperform vote.
Fortis has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PPL has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PPL had 2 more articles in the media than Fortis. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for PPL and 2 mentions for Fortis. Fortis' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat PPL's score of 0.38 indicating that Fortis is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fortis presently has a consensus target price of $55.13, indicating a potential upside of 40.88%. PPL has a consensus target price of $32.50, indicating a potential upside of 18.57%. Given Fortis' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Fortis is more favorable than PPL.
Fortis pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. PPL pays an annual dividend of $1.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Fortis pays out 55.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PPL pays out 103.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Fortis has a net margin of 13.22% compared to PPL's net margin of 8.90%. PPL's return on equity of 8.45% beat Fortis' return on equity.
57.8% of Fortis shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of PPL shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of PPL shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Fortis has higher revenue and earnings than PPL. Fortis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PPL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
PPL beats Fortis on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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