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KEP vs. EPD, VST, ET, AEP, TRP, EXC, XEL, VG, CQP, and FTS

Should you be buying Korea Electric Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Korea Electric Power include Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Vistra (VST), Energy Transfer (ET), American Electric Power (AEP), TC Energy (TRP), Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), Venture Global (VG), Cheniere Energy Partners (CQP), and Fortis (FTS). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.

Korea Electric Power vs. Its Competitors

Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) and Korea Electric Power (NYSE:KEP) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.

26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Korea Electric Power shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Enterprise Products Partners has a net margin of 10.71% compared to Korea Electric Power's net margin of 5.53%. Enterprise Products Partners' return on equity of 19.81% beat Korea Electric Power's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Enterprise Products Partners10.71% 19.81% 7.69%
Korea Electric Power 5.53%13.16%2.18%

Enterprise Products Partners presently has a consensus price target of $35.83, indicating a potential upside of 12.86%. Given Enterprise Products Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Enterprise Products Partners is more favorable than Korea Electric Power.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Enterprise Products Partners
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80
Korea Electric Power
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Korea Electric Power has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Korea Electric Power pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Enterprise Products Partners pays out 81.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Korea Electric Power pays out 1.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enterprise Products Partners has raised its dividend for 28 consecutive years. Enterprise Products Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

In the previous week, Enterprise Products Partners had 17 more articles in the media than Korea Electric Power. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners and 4 mentions for Korea Electric Power. Enterprise Products Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Korea Electric Power's score of 0.89 indicating that Enterprise Products Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Enterprise Products Partners
19 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Korea Electric Power
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Enterprise Products Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Korea Electric Power. Korea Electric Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enterprise Products Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Enterprise Products Partners$56.22B1.22$5.90B$2.6911.80
Korea Electric Power$94.99T0.00$2.44B$2.924.59

Summary

Enterprise Products Partners beats Korea Electric Power on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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KEP vs. The Competition

MetricKorea Electric PowerUTIL IndustryUtilities SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$17.20B$25.33B$16.54B$21.49B
Dividend Yield0.35%3.61%5.32%3.49%
P/E Ratio4.5919.4452.3129.75
Price / Sales0.004.2429.6951.60
Price / Cash1.399.0819.3318.13
Price / Book0.592.302.234.63
Net Income$2.44B$1.43B$752.30M$999.94M
7 Day Performance-2.01%2.15%1.20%0.62%
1 Month Performance-3.53%-0.21%0.90%4.34%
1 Year Performance59.33%10.32%212.23%16.38%

Korea Electric Power Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KEP
Korea Electric Power
1.6043 of 5 stars
$13.40
-2.4%
N/A+59.3%$17.20B$94.99T4.5948,440Gap Down
EPD
Enterprise Products Partners
4.2675 of 5 stars
$31.68
-0.4%
$35.83
+13.1%
+7.2%$68.58B$56.22B11.787,800Positive News
VST
Vistra
3.6246 of 5 stars
$187.73
-1.1%
$201.43
+7.3%
+145.1%$63.61B$17.22B29.946,850Positive News
Insider Trade
ET
Energy Transfer
4.5072 of 5 stars
$17.41
-1.4%
$22.54
+29.5%
+7.9%$59.75B$82.67B13.4916,248Positive News
AEP
American Electric Power
4.3002 of 5 stars
$108.11
-0.5%
$111.29
+2.9%
+5.1%$57.82B$19.72B15.8116,330Positive News
TRP
TC Energy
3.9436 of 5 stars
$51.84
+0.8%
$62.00
+19.6%
+12.4%$53.92B$10.05B17.696,668Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↑
EXC
Exelon
4.325 of 5 stars
$43.43
+0.2%
$47.20
+8.7%
+7.8%$43.86B$23.03B16.5120,014Positive News
XEL
Xcel Energy
3.442 of 5 stars
$72.68
+0.6%
$76.80
+5.7%
+14.9%$42.99B$13.44B20.1311,380Positive News
Short Interest ↑
VG
Venture Global
4.2043 of 5 stars
$12.84
-0.2%
$17.00
+32.4%
N/A$31.17B$4.97B0.001,500Positive News
Dividend Increase
CQP
Cheniere Energy Partners
2.5592 of 5 stars
$53.94
-0.2%
$54.60
+1.2%
N/A$26.11B$8.70B13.091,714News Coverage
Positive News
FTS
Fortis
4.8717 of 5 stars
$49.21
-1.0%
$72.00
+46.3%
+8.5%$24.78B$8.40B20.259,848

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