NEP vs. AY, RNW, ENLT, CEPU, ORA, BEPC, CWEN, ARLP, CRK, and KOS
Should you be buying NextEra Energy Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NextEra Energy Partners include Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure (AY), ReNew Energy Global (RNW), Enlight Renewable Energy (ENLT), Central Puerto (CEPU), Ormat Technologies (ORA), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Clearway Energy (CWEN), Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Comstock Resources (CRK), and Kosmos Energy (KOS). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure (NASDAQ:AY) and NextEra Energy Partners (NYSE:NEP) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
NextEra Energy Partners has a net margin of 16.00% compared to NextEra Energy Partners' net margin of 4.43%. NextEra Energy Partners' return on equity of 2.91% beat Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure's return on equity.
Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure presently has a consensus target price of $23.67, suggesting a potential upside of 15.96%. NextEra Energy Partners has a consensus target price of $43.88, suggesting a potential upside of 48.08%. Given Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NextEra Energy Partners is more favorable than Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure.
Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $1.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. NextEra Energy Partners pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%. Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure pays out 423.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NextEra Energy Partners pays out 165.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NextEra Energy Partners has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years. NextEra Energy Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
40.5% of Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.0% of NextEra Energy Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of NextEra Energy Partners shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextEra Energy Partners has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, NextEra Energy Partners had 12 more articles in the media than Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for NextEra Energy Partners and 10 mentions for Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure. Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat NextEra Energy Partners' score of 0.50 indicating that NextEra Energy Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NextEra Energy Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure. NextEra Energy Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure received 64 more outperform votes than NextEra Energy Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.86% of users gave Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 60.13% of users gave NextEra Energy Partners an outperform vote.
Summary
NextEra Energy Partners beats Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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