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Korea Electric Power (KEP) Competitors

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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 better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and risk.

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

In the previous week, Enterprise Products Partners had 34 more articles in the media than Korea Electric Power. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners and 1 mentions for Korea Electric Power. Korea Electric Power's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Enterprise Products Partners' score of 0.91 indicating that Korea Electric Power is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Enterprise Products Partners
21 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Korea Electric Power
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. 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 80.1% 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 increased 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.

Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Korea Electric Power has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Enterprise Products Partners presently has a consensus price target of $36.36, indicating a potential upside of 14.55%. 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)
7 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.79
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 net margin of 10.26% compared to Korea Electric Power's net margin of 5.53%. Enterprise Products Partners' return on equity of 19.90% beat Korea Electric Power's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Enterprise Products Partners10.26% 19.90% 7.75%
Korea Electric Power 5.53%13.16%2.18%

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$2.6711.89
Korea Electric Power$93.51T0.00$2.44B$2.924.69

Summary

Enterprise Products Partners beats Korea Electric Power on 15 of the 20 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 KEP 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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KEP vs. The Competition

MetricKorea Electric PowerUTIL IndustryUtilities SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$17.58B$24.57B$15.80B$20.66B
Dividend Yield0.35%3.75%5.62%3.71%
P/E Ratio4.6934.4020.1627.84
Price / Sales0.004.03149.3155.57
Price / Cash1.408.8719.1917.94
Price / Book0.612.222.164.60
Net Income$2.44B$1.43B$751.12M$989.58M
7 Day Performance1.82%-0.19%12.86%1.12%
1 Month Performance34.03%1.55%22.95%5.43%
1 Year Performance88.51%16.42%145.70%10.55%

Korea Electric Power Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KEP
Korea Electric Power
2.6196 of 5 stars
$13.71
+1.4%
N/A+85.8%$17.58B$93.51T4.6948,440Positive News
EPD
Enterprise Products Partners
4.4184 of 5 stars
$31.34
-0.5%
$36.20
+15.5%
+8.5%$68.34B$56.22B11.747,800Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
VST
Vistra
3.3955 of 5 stars
$193.73
+0.8%
$176.92
-8.7%
+115.1%$65.22B$17.22B30.466,850Positive News
ET
Energy Transfer
4.8931 of 5 stars
$17.75
-1.2%
$22.58
+27.2%
+7.4%$61.67B$82.67B13.4516,248Positive News
AEP
American Electric Power
4.3927 of 5 stars
$104.17
+0.3%
$108.31
+4.0%
+15.8%$55.48B$19.72B20.0716,330Positive News
TRP
TC Energy
3.9908 of 5 stars
$47.39
-1.6%
$62.00
+30.8%
+21.3%$50.07B$10.05B15.646,668Positive News
EXC
Exelon
4.5033 of 5 stars
$43.17
+0.1%
$47.40
+9.8%
+23.5%$43.54B$23.03B16.0520,014Positive News
Analyst Forecast
XEL
Xcel Energy
4.5003 of 5 stars
$67.88
-0.5%
$75.80
+11.7%
+26.4%$39.33B$13.44B19.9611,380Positive News
VG
Venture Global
3.5438 of 5 stars
$15.10
-3.0%
$16.77
+11.1%
N/A$37.65B$4.97B0.001,500
CQP
Cheniere Energy Partners
2.0283 of 5 stars
$55.39
-1.3%
$55.80
+0.7%
N/A$27.17B$8.70B14.321,714Positive News
FTS
Fortis
4.2892 of 5 stars
$46.85
-1.2%
$72.00
+53.7%
+18.2%$23.79B$8.40B19.779,848

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This page (NYSE:KEP) was last updated on 7/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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