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This company recently went public with an IPO on Wednesday, October 8th 2025. They issued 5,000,000 shares at $4.00 - $6.00 per share. We will continue to update data for POM as it becomes available.

Pepco (POM) Competitors

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POM vs. NEE, SO, DUK, ETR, PPL, ES, FE, EIX, PNW, and OGE

Should you be buying Pepco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pepco include NextEra Energy (NEE), Southern (SO), Duke Energy (DUK), Entergy (ETR), PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Edison International (EIX), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), and OGE Energy (OGE). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.

Pepco vs. Its Competitors

Pepco (NYSE:POM) and NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE) are both electric utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Pepco pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 24.5%. NextEra Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. NextEra Energy pays out 79.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NextEra Energy has increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years.

NextEra Energy has a consensus target price of $85.57, indicating a potential upside of 1.06%. Given NextEra Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NextEra Energy is more favorable than Pepco.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Pepco
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
NextEra Energy
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

NextEra Energy has a net margin of 22.84% compared to Pepco's net margin of 0.00%. NextEra Energy's return on equity of 12.31% beat Pepco's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
PepcoN/A N/A N/A
NextEra Energy 22.84%12.31%3.86%

NextEra Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Pepco.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
PepcoN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
NextEra Energy$24.75B7.04$6.95B$2.8629.61

In the previous week, NextEra Energy had 76 more articles in the media than Pepco. MarketBeat recorded 80 mentions for NextEra Energy and 4 mentions for Pepco. NextEra Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat Pepco's score of 0.00 indicating that NextEra Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Pepco
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
NextEra Energy
65 Very Positive mention(s)
8 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

78.7% of NextEra Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of NextEra Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

NextEra Energy beats Pepco on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding POM and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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POM vs. The Competition

MetricPepco Industry SectorNYSE Exchange
Market CapN/A$2.47B$2.47B$21.83B
Dividend YieldN/A13.90%13.87%3.67%
P/E RatioN/A28.3528.3429.93
Price / SalesN/A6,125.626,876.9591.78
Price / CashN/A20.7459.9917.79
Price / BookN/A3.293.444.69
Net IncomeN/A-$331.88M-$445.27M$1.01B

Pepco Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
POM
Pepco
N/A$4.40
+1.1%
N/AN/A$0.00N/A0.00N/AGap Up
NEE
NextEra Energy
4.8013 of 5 stars
$80.12
+2.5%
$84.08
+4.9%
+2.9%$161.00B$24.75B28.019,300Trending News
Analyst Forecast
SO
Southern
4.2994 of 5 stars
$94.56
+0.7%
$95.08
+0.6%
+10.3%$103.28B$26.72B24.3128,600Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
DUK
Duke Energy
4.3965 of 5 stars
$123.58
+1.7%
$132.25
+7.0%
+10.5%$94.54B$30.36B20.0926,413Trending News
Analyst Forecast
ETR
Entergy
4.4594 of 5 stars
$95.41
+2.0%
$91.33
-4.3%
+46.5%$41.77B$11.88B23.7612,267Analyst Forecast
PPL
PPL
3.7649 of 5 stars
$36.68
+0.8%
$36.78
+0.3%
+18.1%$26.92B$8.46B27.386,653Analyst Forecast
ES
Eversource Energy
3.9971 of 5 stars
$72.52
+1.0%
$64.38
-11.2%
+11.2%$26.64B$11.90B31.1210,680Trending News
Analyst Forecast
FE
FirstEnergy
3.6203 of 5 stars
$45.92
+1.0%
$46.00
+0.2%
+9.8%$26.25B$13.47B20.3212,294
EIX
Edison International
4.9949 of 5 stars
$55.29
+1.5%
$68.15
+23.3%
-35.9%$20.97B$17.60B8.1214,013Positive News
Analyst Revision
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
3.606 of 5 stars
$90.25
+2.7%
$95.91
+6.3%
+7.3%$10.50B$5.12B18.616,403
OGE
OGE Energy
3.8635 of 5 stars
$45.93
+1.1%
$47.00
+2.3%
+15.3%$9.15B$2.99B18.822,291Positive News

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