PCG vs. ED, PEG, WEC, AEE, CMS, NI, EXC, XEL, LNT, and DUK
Should you be buying PG&E stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PG&E include Consolidated Edison (ED), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), NiSource (NI), Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), Alliant Energy (LNT), and Duke Energy (DUK). These companies are all part of the "electric & other services combined" industry.
PG&E vs.
PG&E (NYSE:PCG) and Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
PG&E currently has a consensus target price of $18.17, indicating a potential upside of 9.97%. Consolidated Edison has a consensus target price of $91.42, indicating a potential downside of 1.37%. Given PG&E's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe PG&E is more favorable than Consolidated Edison.
83.6% of PG&E shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.0% of Consolidated Edison shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of PG&E shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Consolidated Edison shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
PG&E has higher revenue and earnings than Consolidated Edison. Consolidated Edison is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PG&E, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PG&E has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Consolidated Edison has a beta of 0.37, indicating that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Consolidated Edison had 5 more articles in the media than PG&E. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Consolidated Edison and 8 mentions for PG&E. Consolidated Edison's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat PG&E's score of 0.30 indicating that Consolidated Edison is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PG&E received 475 more outperform votes than Consolidated Edison when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.05% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 43.00% of users gave Consolidated Edison an outperform vote.
Consolidated Edison has a net margin of 15.56% compared to PG&E's net margin of 8.64%. PG&E's return on equity of 10.21% beat Consolidated Edison's return on equity.
Summary
PG&E beats Consolidated Edison on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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