SRE vs. PCG, D, PEG, ED, WEC, DTE, AEE, CNP, CMS, and NI
Should you be buying Sempra stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sempra include PG&E (PCG), Dominion Energy (D), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), DTE Energy (DTE), Ameren (AEE), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), CMS Energy (CMS), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
Sempra (NYSE:SRE) and PG&E (NYSE:PCG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Sempra has a net margin of 20.99% compared to PG&E's net margin of 10.05%. PG&E's return on equity of 11.32% beat Sempra's return on equity.
Sempra presently has a consensus target price of $82.10, indicating a potential upside of 4.52%. PG&E has a consensus target price of $20.40, indicating a potential upside of 13.14%. Given PG&E's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PG&E is more favorable than Sempra.
89.7% of Sempra shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of PG&E shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Sempra shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of PG&E shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sempra has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PG&E. PG&E is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sempra, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PG&E had 26 more articles in the media than Sempra. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for PG&E and 19 mentions for Sempra. Sempra's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat PG&E's score of 0.51 indicating that Sempra is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sempra pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Sempra pays out 54.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PG&E pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
PG&E received 394 more outperform votes than Sempra when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.33% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 60.10% of users gave Sempra an outperform vote.
Sempra has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PG&E has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sempra beats PG&E on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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