NI vs. PCG, SRE, D, PEG, ED, WEC, DTE, AEE, CNP, and CMS
Should you be buying NiSource stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NiSource include PG&E (PCG), Sempra (SRE), Dominion Energy (D), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), DTE Energy (DTE), Ameren (AEE), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), and CMS Energy (CMS). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
PG&E (NYSE:PCG) and NiSource (NYSE:NI) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
In the previous week, PG&E had 30 more articles in the media than NiSource. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for PG&E and 15 mentions for NiSource. PG&E's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat NiSource's score of 0.51 indicating that NiSource is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PG&E has higher revenue and earnings than NiSource. PG&E is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NiSource, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PG&E presently has a consensus price target of $20.40, suggesting a potential upside of 13.14%. NiSource has a consensus price target of $30.50, suggesting a potential downside of 2.65%. Given NiSource's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe PG&E is more favorable than NiSource.
PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. NiSource pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. PG&E pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NiSource pays out 69.3% 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. NiSource has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. NiSource is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
PG&E has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NiSource has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PG&E received 447 more outperform votes than NiSource when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.33% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 54.33% of users gave NiSource an outperform vote.
NiSource has a net margin of 14.23% compared to NiSource's net margin of 10.05%. NiSource's return on equity of 11.32% beat PG&E's return on equity.
78.6% of PG&E shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of NiSource shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of PG&E shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of NiSource shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
PG&E beats NiSource on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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