Spire (SR) Competitors

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (NYSE:EBR) and Spire (NYSE:SR) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.

Is EBR or SR a better dividend stock?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás pays an annual dividend of $0.33 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Spire pays an annual dividend of $3.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás pays out 40.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spire pays out 76.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Spire has increased its dividend for 22 consecutive years. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of EBR or SR?

2.6% of Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Spire shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Spire shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts rate EBR or SR?

Spire has a consensus price target of $77.40, indicating a potential upside of 1.30%. Given Spire's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Spire is more favorable than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	4.00
Spire	0 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Does the media refer more to EBR or SR?

In the previous week, Spire had 20 more articles in the media than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Spire and 4 mentions for Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Spire's score of 0.49 indicating that Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Spire	8 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	11 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Is EBR or SR more profitable?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a net margin of 26.50% compared to Spire's net margin of 9.70%. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' return on equity of 9.00% beat Spire's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	26.50%	9.00%	3.82%
Spire	9.70%	7.88%	2.22%

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, EBR or SR?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has higher revenue and earnings than Spire. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	$40.18B	0.43	$977.82M	$0.82	9.38
Spire	$2.51B	1.78	$250.90M	$4.13	18.50

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in EBR or SR?

Spire received 249 more outperform votes than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.70% of users gave Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás an outperform vote while only 57.24% of users gave Spire an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	Outperform Votes 162 58.70%	Underperform Votes 114 41.30%
Spire	Outperform Votes 411 57.24%	Underperform Votes 307 42.76%

Which has more volatility and risk, EBR or SR?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spire has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás beats Spire on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.