PNW vs. EIX, ETR, FE, ES, PPL, OGE, IDA, POR, OTTR, and ALE
Should you be buying Pinnacle West Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pinnacle West Capital include Edison International (EIX), Entergy (ETR), FirstEnergy (FE), Eversource Energy (ES), PPL (PPL), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), Otter Tail (OTTR), and ALLETE (ALE). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.
Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) and Edison International (NYSE:EIX) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Pinnacle West Capital presently has a consensus price target of $76.77, suggesting a potential downside of 9.37%. Edison International has a consensus price target of $77.82, suggesting a potential downside of 0.88%. Given Edison International's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Edison International is more favorable than Pinnacle West Capital.
Pinnacle West Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Edison International pays an annual dividend of $3.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Pinnacle West Capital pays out 76.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Edison International pays out 136.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pinnacle West Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Edison International received 363 more outperform votes than Pinnacle West Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.18% of users gave Edison International an outperform vote while only 41.97% of users gave Pinnacle West Capital an outperform vote.
Edison International has higher revenue and earnings than Pinnacle West Capital. Pinnacle West Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Edison International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
91.5% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.0% of Edison International shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Edison International shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Edison International had 16 more articles in the media than Pinnacle West Capital. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Edison International and 13 mentions for Pinnacle West Capital. Pinnacle West Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Edison International's score of 0.63 indicating that Pinnacle West Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pinnacle West Capital has a net margin of 11.09% compared to Edison International's net margin of 6.60%. Edison International's return on equity of 13.07% beat Pinnacle West Capital's return on equity.
Pinnacle West Capital has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edison International has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Edison International beats Pinnacle West Capital on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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