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NYSE:PCG

PG&E (PCG) Competitors

$16.52
+0.09 (+0.55%)
(As of 05/26/2023 07:00 PM ET)
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Today's Range
$16.28
▼
$16.55
50-Day Range
$15.29
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$17.45
52-Week Range
$9.64
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$17.68
Volume
14.79 million shs
Average Volume
16.44 million shs
Market Capitalization
$40.86 billion
P/E Ratio
18.56
Dividend Yield
N/A
Price Target
$18.17
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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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
PG&E
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.56
Consolidated Edison
4 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.70

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
PG&E$21.68 billion1.88$1.81 billion$0.8918.56
Consolidated Edison$15.67 billion2.05$1.66 billion$7.0213.20

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.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
PG&E
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Consolidated Edison
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
PG&EOutperform Votes
850
64.05%
Underperform Votes
477
35.95%
Consolidated EdisonOutperform Votes
375
43.00%
Underperform Votes
497
57.00%

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
PG&E 8.64% 10.21% 1.99%
Consolidated Edison 15.56% 8.36% 2.65%

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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Media Sentiment Over Time

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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PCG vs. The Competition

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MetricPG&EElectric & other services combined IndustryUtilities SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$40.86B$16.82B$13.23B$14.33B
Dividend YieldN/A5.25%4.21%4.08%
P/E Ratio18.5613.2998.7817.93
Price / Sales1.882.051,513.188.95
Price / Cash6.567.6749.0015.16
Price / Book1.761.662.006.84
Net Income$1.81B$796.70M$446.71M$891.72M
7 Day Performance0.67%-2.69%-1.50%-1.22%
1 Month Performance-3.45%-3.70%-2.93%-2.03%
1 Year Performance33.77%-11.31%-9.92%-10.36%

PG&E Competitors List

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CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ED
Consolidated Edison
2.3706 of 5 stars		$93.88
-0.8%		$91.42
-2.6%		-7.8%$32.53B$16.01B13.3714,319Short Interest ↓
High Trading Volume
PEG
Public Service Enterprise Group
3.022 of 5 stars		$61.31
-1.5%		$67.25
+9.7%		-13.7%$30.59B$9.80B13.2112,525
WEC
WEC Energy Group
2.472 of 5 stars		$88.86
-1.1%		$100.10
+12.6%		-18.4%$28.03B$9.60B20.767,022
AEE
Ameren
2.6607 of 5 stars		$82.71
-1.1%		$95.00
+14.9%		-16.3%$21.72B$7.96B19.839,244Short Interest ↑
CMS
CMS Energy
2.1551 of 5 stars		$58.63
-0.5%		$67.56
+15.2%		-20.1%$17.10B$8.60B25.169,073Short Interest ↑
Positive News
NI
NiSource
2.4528 of 5 stars		$27.36
-0.1%		$29.17
+6.6%		-15.5%$11.30B$5.85B18.617,162Dividend Announcement
EXC
Exelon
2.8907 of 5 stars		$40.44
+0.8%		$46.40
+14.7%		-21.0%$40.22B$19.08B17.9719,063Short Interest ↓
XEL
Xcel Energy
2.6649 of 5 stars		$65.59
-0.4%		$71.50
+9.0%		-15.7%$36.10B$15.31B20.3111,982Dividend Announcement
LNT
Alliant Energy
2.5644 of 5 stars		$52.44
-0.3%		$58.67
+11.9%		-20.1%$13.18B$4.21B20.093,129Positive News
DUK
Duke Energy
2.2102 of 5 stars		$90.75
-1.3%		$105.60
+16.4%		-22.5%$69.94B$28.77B27.9227,859

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