PCG vs. PEG, ED, WEC, AEE, NI, EXC, XEL, LNT, EVRG, and DUK
Should you be buying PG&E stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PG&E include Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Ameren (AEE), NiSource (NI), Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), Alliant Energy (LNT), Evergy (EVRG), and Duke Energy (DUK). These companies are all part of the "electric & other services combined" industry.
PG&E (NYSE:PCG) and Public Service Enterprise Group (NYSE:PEG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and earnings.
PG&E presently has a consensus price target of $18.89, suggesting a potential upside of 10.69%. Public Service Enterprise Group has a consensus price target of $67.15, suggesting a potential downside of 1.37%. Given PG&E's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe PG&E is more favorable than Public Service Enterprise Group.
78.6% of PG&E shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.3% of Public Service Enterprise Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of PG&E shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Public Service Enterprise Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Public Service Enterprise Group has a net margin of 22.81% compared to PG&E's net margin of 9.24%. Public Service Enterprise Group's return on equity of 11.53% beat PG&E's return on equity.
PG&E has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Public Service Enterprise Group has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Public Service Enterprise Group pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. PG&E pays out 3.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Public Service Enterprise Group pays out 46.8% 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.
Public Service Enterprise Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PG&E. Public Service Enterprise Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PG&E, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PG&E had 12 more articles in the media than Public Service Enterprise Group. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for PG&E and 17 mentions for Public Service Enterprise Group. PG&E's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Public Service Enterprise Group's score of 0.59 indicating that PG&E is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PG&E received 346 more outperform votes than Public Service Enterprise Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.21% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 56.69% of users gave Public Service Enterprise Group an outperform vote.
Summary
PG&E and Public Service Enterprise Group tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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