CPX vs. TA, BEP.UN, BIPC, BEPC, AQN, NPI, ACO.X, CU, BLX, and SPB
Should you be buying Capital Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capital Power include TransAlta (TA), Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP.UN), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Northland Power (NPI), ATCO (ACO.X), Canadian Utilities (CU), Boralex (BLX), and Superior Plus (SPB). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
TransAlta (TSE:TA) and Capital Power (TSE:CPX) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
TransAlta currently has a consensus price target of C$15.55, suggesting a potential upside of 71.26%. Capital Power has a consensus price target of C$46.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.10%. Given Capital Power's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe TransAlta is more favorable than Capital Power.
TransAlta has a net margin of 20.71% compared to TransAlta's net margin of 18.29%. Capital Power's return on equity of 43.58% beat TransAlta's return on equity.
Capital Power received 39 more outperform votes than TransAlta when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.38% of users gave Capital Power an outperform vote while only 53.21% of users gave TransAlta an outperform vote.
Capital Power has higher revenue and earnings than TransAlta. TransAlta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital Power, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TransAlta pays an annual dividend of C$0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Capital Power pays an annual dividend of C$2.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. TransAlta pays out 10.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Capital Power pays out 40.7% 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.
68.2% of TransAlta shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.6% of Capital Power shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of TransAlta shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Capital Power shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
TransAlta has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital Power has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, TransAlta had 3 more articles in the media than Capital Power. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for TransAlta and 4 mentions for Capital Power. Capital Power's average media sentiment score of -0.13 beat TransAlta's score of -0.28 indicating that TransAlta is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
TransAlta beats Capital Power on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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