KEP vs. CIG, ADNWW, CDZIP, CWEN.A, CWEN-A, CIG.C, ELPC, HTOOW, TLK, and RNWWW
Should you be buying Korea Electric Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Korea Electric Power include CEMIG (CIG), Advent Technologies (ADNWW), Cadiz (CDZIP), Clearway Energy (CWEN.A), Clearway Energy (CWEN-A), COMPANHIA ENERG/S (CIG.C), Companhia Paranaense de Energia (ELPC), Fusion Fuel Green (HTOOW), Perusahaan Perseroan (Persero) PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (TLK), and ReNew Energy Global (RNWWW). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Korea Electric Power (NYSE:KEP) and CEMIG (NYSE:CIG) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Korea Electric Power had 2 more articles in the media than CEMIG. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Korea Electric Power and 1 mentions for CEMIG. CEMIG's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Korea Electric Power's score of -0.01 indicating that CEMIG is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CEMIG received 11 more outperform votes than Korea Electric Power when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.37% of users gave CEMIG an outperform vote while only 55.48% of users gave Korea Electric Power an outperform vote.
CEMIG has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Korea Electric Power. Korea Electric Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CEMIG, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CEMIG has a consensus target price of $2.75, indicating a potential upside of 12.02%. Given CEMIG's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CEMIG is more favorable than Korea Electric Power.
Korea Electric Power pays an annual dividend of $0.51 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. CEMIG pays an annual dividend of $0.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Korea Electric Power pays out -16.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CEMIG pays out 41.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
CEMIG has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Korea Electric Power's net margin of -5.65%. CEMIG's return on equity of 0.00% beat Korea Electric Power's return on equity.
Korea Electric Power has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CEMIG has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CEMIG beats Korea Electric Power on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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