NRG vs. EBR, CNP, AGR, FTS, PPL, ES, FE, DTE, ETR, and PNW
Should you be buying NRG Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NRG Energy include Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Avangrid (AGR), Fortis (FTS), PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), DTE Energy (DTE), Entergy (ETR), and Pinnacle West Capital (PNW). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
NRG Energy (NYSE:NRG) and Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (NYSE:EBR) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and community ranking.
NRG Energy presently has a consensus target price of $59.50, indicating a potential downside of 17.57%. Given NRG Energy's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe NRG Energy is more favorable than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás.
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NRG Energy.
In the previous week, NRG Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for NRG Energy and 1 mentions for Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat NRG Energy's score of 0.94 indicating that Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NRG Energy received 519 more outperform votes than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave NRG Energy an outperform vote while only 59.02% of users gave Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás an outperform vote.
97.7% of NRG Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.5% of Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of NRG Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
NRG Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. NRG Energy pays out -152.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
NRG Energy has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a net margin of 12.44% compared to NRG Energy's net margin of -0.70%. NRG Energy's return on equity of 44.03% beat Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' return on equity.
Summary
NRG Energy beats Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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