KEN vs. HE, EDN, TAC, PAM, PNM, OTTR, BKH, ENIC, AQN, and POR
Should you be buying Kenon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kenon include Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN), TransAlta (TAC), Pampa Energía (PAM), PNM Resources (PNM), Otter Tail (OTTR), Black Hills (BKH), Enel Chile (ENIC), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), and Portland General Electric (POR). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Kenon (NYSE:KEN) and Hawaiian Electric Industries (NYSE:HE) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
Kenon has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hawaiian Electric Industries. Kenon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hawaiian Electric Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kenon has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hawaiian Electric Industries has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hawaiian Electric Industries received 264 more outperform votes than Kenon when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.12% of users gave Kenon an outperform vote while only 50.49% of users gave Hawaiian Electric Industries an outperform vote.
Hawaiian Electric Industries has a consensus target price of $11.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.04%. Given Hawaiian Electric Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hawaiian Electric Industries is more favorable than Kenon.
In the previous week, Kenon had 11 more articles in the media than Hawaiian Electric Industries. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Kenon and 3 mentions for Hawaiian Electric Industries. Kenon's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Hawaiian Electric Industries' score of 0.29 indicating that Kenon is being referred to more favorably in the media.
13.4% of Kenon shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of Hawaiian Electric Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Kenon shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Hawaiian Electric Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hawaiian Electric Industries has a net margin of 5.45% compared to Kenon's net margin of -34.10%. Hawaiian Electric Industries' return on equity of 9.99% beat Kenon's return on equity.
Summary
Hawaiian Electric Industries beats Kenon on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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