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HE vs. IDA, POR, ALE, OTTR, MGEE, ARRY, UTL, NEE, SO, and DUK

Should you be buying Hawaiian Electric Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hawaiian Electric Industries include IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), Allete (ALE), Otter Tail (OTTR), MGE Energy (MGEE), Array Technologies (ARRY), Unitil (UTL), NextEra Energy (NEE), Southern (SO), and Duke Energy (DUK). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.

Hawaiian Electric Industries vs. Its Competitors

IDACORP (NYSE:IDA) and Hawaiian Electric Industries (NYSE:HE) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings and risk.

IDACORP has a net margin of 16.61% compared to Hawaiian Electric Industries' net margin of -42.60%. Hawaiian Electric Industries' return on equity of 12.59% beat IDACORP's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
IDACORP16.61% 9.13% 3.28%
Hawaiian Electric Industries -42.60%12.59%1.35%

IDACORP has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hawaiian Electric Industries. Hawaiian Electric Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IDACORP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
IDACORP$1.83B3.65$289.17M$5.6321.91
Hawaiian Electric Industries$3.22B0.58-$1.42B-$12.90-0.84

IDACORP has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hawaiian Electric Industries has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, IDACORP had 6 more articles in the media than Hawaiian Electric Industries. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for IDACORP and 3 mentions for Hawaiian Electric Industries. Hawaiian Electric Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat IDACORP's score of 0.84 indicating that Hawaiian Electric Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
IDACORP
4 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Hawaiian Electric Industries
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

IDACORP presently has a consensus target price of $122.86, indicating a potential downside of 0.40%. Hawaiian Electric Industries has a consensus target price of $11.94, indicating a potential upside of 10.48%. Given Hawaiian Electric Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hawaiian Electric Industries is more favorable than IDACORP.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
IDACORP
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.57
Hawaiian Electric Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25

89.1% of IDACORP shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of Hawaiian Electric Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of IDACORP shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Hawaiian Electric Industries shares are held 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

IDACORP beats Hawaiian Electric Industries on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding HE and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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HE vs. The Competition

MetricHawaiian Electric IndustriesUTIL IndustryUtilities SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.86B$24.54B$16.07B$21.05B
Dividend YieldN/A3.67%5.28%3.58%
P/E Ratio-0.8435.0620.2827.79
Price / Sales0.584.11204.6759.58
Price / Cash4.468.9619.1123.00
Price / Book1.262.272.174.68
Net Income-$1.42B$1.43B$751.46M$994.49M
7 Day Performance0.61%1.98%0.82%1.38%
1 Month Performance3.50%4.43%26.09%5.63%
1 Year Performance-33.79%20.07%204.13%11.26%

Hawaiian Electric Industries Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HE
Hawaiian Electric Industries
1.8673 of 5 stars
$10.81
+0.2%
$11.94
+10.5%
-35.5%$1.86B$3.22B-0.842,602Positive News
IDA
IDACORP
3.9575 of 5 stars
$121.15
+0.8%
$122.86
+1.4%
+27.4%$6.54B$1.81B21.522,141Upcoming Earnings
POR
Portland General Electric
3.4481 of 5 stars
$40.73
+1.8%
$45.60
+12.0%
-16.6%$4.46B$3.44B14.342,915News Coverage
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
ALE
Allete
3.266 of 5 stars
$66.03
+0.6%
N/A+1.9%$3.83B$1.53B20.701,616Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
OTTR
Otter Tail
1.6581 of 5 stars
$77.58
+0.5%
$83.00
+7.0%
-17.1%$3.25B$1.33B11.052,133Positive News
MGEE
MGE Energy
3.2402 of 5 stars
$86.87
+1.1%
$74.00
-14.8%
+2.1%$3.17B$704.58M24.54700Positive News
ARRY
Array Technologies
3.6017 of 5 stars
$6.82
-3.9%
$8.95
+31.2%
-39.9%$1.04B$1.06B-3.691,021News Coverage
UTL
Unitil
2.7596 of 5 stars
$52.14
+1.6%
$55.00
+5.5%
-13.3%$847.73M$494.80M17.79520
NEE
NextEra Energy
4.8682 of 5 stars
$76.17
+0.3%
$84.42
+10.8%
-4.5%$156.80B$25.27B28.539,300Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Insider Trade
SO
Southern
4.1693 of 5 stars
$94.76
+0.7%
$93.20
-1.6%
+14.9%$104.15B$27.85B22.6228,600Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
DUK
Duke Energy
4.3471 of 5 stars
$119.77
+1.1%
$127.25
+6.2%
+10.3%$93.09B$30.36B19.8626,413Trending News
Analyst Revision

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This page (NYSE:HE) was last updated on 7/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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