Ormat Technologies (ORA) Competitors

Ormat Technologies (NYSE:ORA) and AES (NYSE:AES) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk and profitability.

Which has more risk and volatility, ORA or AES?

Ormat Technologies has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AES has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is ORA or AES a better dividend stock?

Ormat Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. AES pays an annual dividend of $0.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Ormat Technologies pays out 23.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AES pays out 38.0% 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. AES has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years. AES is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Is ORA or AES more profitable?

Ormat Technologies has a net margin of 13.33% compared to AES's net margin of 8.34%. AES's return on equity of 27.30% beat Ormat Technologies' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ormat Technologies	13.33%	5.27%	2.40%
AES	8.34%	27.30%	3.76%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in ORA or AES?

AES received 102 more outperform votes than Ormat Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.63% of users gave AES an outperform vote while only 56.33% of users gave Ormat Technologies an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Ormat Technologies	Outperform Votes 298 56.33%	Underperform Votes 231 43.67%
AES	Outperform Votes 400 61.63%	Underperform Votes 249 38.37%

Do analysts recommend ORA or AES?

Ormat Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $83.29, indicating a potential upside of 12.84%. AES has a consensus target price of $24.22, indicating a potential upside of 115.69%. Given AES's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AES is more favorable than Ormat Technologies.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ormat Technologies	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.38
AES	2 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	2 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.73

Which has better earnings and valuation, ORA or AES?

AES has higher revenue and earnings than Ormat Technologies. AES is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ormat Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ormat Technologies	$885.25M	5.05	$124.40M	$2.06	35.83
AES	$12.12B	0.66	$249M	$1.84	6.10

Does the media favor ORA or AES?

In the previous week, AES had 23 more articles in the media than Ormat Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for AES and 9 mentions for Ormat Technologies. Ormat Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat AES's score of 0.79 indicating that Ormat Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Ormat Technologies	6 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
AES	14 Very Positive mention(s)	7 Positive mention(s)	8 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of ORA or AES?

95.5% of Ormat Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of AES shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Ormat Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of AES shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

AES beats Ormat Technologies on 15 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.