SO vs. EIX, NEE, ETR, FE, ES, PPL, AEP, D, DTE, and DUK
Should you be buying Southern stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern include Edison International (EIX), NextEra Energy (NEE), Entergy (ETR), FirstEnergy (FE), Eversource Energy (ES), PPL (PPL), American Electric Power (AEP), Dominion Energy (D), DTE Energy (DTE), and Duke Energy (DUK). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Southern (NYSE:SO) and Edison International (NYSE:EIX) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
Edison International received 218 more outperform votes than Southern when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.24% of users gave Edison International an outperform vote while only 50.05% of users gave Southern an outperform vote.
Southern has a net margin of 15.79% compared to Edison International's net margin of 8.35%. Edison International's return on equity of 12.63% beat Southern's return on equity.
Southern has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edison International has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Southern presently has a consensus target price of $74.36, indicating a potential downside of 0.02%. Edison International has a consensus target price of $73.60, indicating a potential upside of 3.49%. Given Edison International's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Edison International is more favorable than Southern.
Southern pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Edison International pays an annual dividend of $3.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Southern pays out 77.1% 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 100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Southern has higher revenue and earnings than Edison International. Southern is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Edison International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Southern had 9 more articles in the media than Edison International. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Southern and 10 mentions for Edison International. Edison International's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Southern's score of 0.57 indicating that Edison International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
64.1% of Southern shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.0% of Edison International shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Southern 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, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Southern beats Edison International on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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