PCG vs. SRE, D, PEG, ED, WEC, DTE, AEE, CNP, CMS, and NI
Should you be buying PG&E stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PG&E include 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), CMS Energy (CMS), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
PG&E (NYSE:PCG) and Sempra (NYSE:SRE) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
PG&E currently has a consensus price target of $20.40, indicating a potential upside of 13.14%. Sempra has a consensus price target of $82.10, indicating a potential upside of 4.52%. Given PG&E's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe PG&E is more favorable than Sempra.
PG&E received 394 more outperform votes than Sempra when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.33% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 60.10% of users gave Sempra an outperform vote.
In the previous week, PG&E had 25 more articles in the media than Sempra. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for PG&E and 20 mentions for Sempra. Sempra's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat PG&E's score of 0.51 indicating that Sempra is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PG&E has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sempra has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sempra has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PG&E. PG&E is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sempra, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Sempra pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. PG&E pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sempra pays out 54.9% 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.
Sempra has a net margin of 20.99% compared to PG&E's net margin of 10.05%. PG&E's return on equity of 11.32% beat Sempra's return on equity.
78.6% of PG&E shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.7% of Sempra shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of PG&E shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Sempra shares are held 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.
Summary
Sempra beats PG&E on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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