EMA vs. BEP.UN, BEPC, AQN, H, BIP.UN, NPI, BIPC, CPX, ACO.X, and BLX
Should you be buying Emera stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Emera include Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP.UN), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Hydro One (H), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP.UN), Northland Power (NPI), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), Capital Power (CPX), ATCO (ACO.X), and Boralex (BLX). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Emera vs.
Brookfield Renewable Partners (TSE:BEP.UN) and Emera (TSE:EMA) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Emera had 3 more articles in the media than Brookfield Renewable Partners. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Emera and 0 mentions for Brookfield Renewable Partners. Brookfield Renewable Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Emera's score of -0.47 indicating that Brookfield Renewable Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Emera has a net margin of 15.06% compared to Brookfield Renewable Partners' net margin of -3.59%. Emera's return on equity of 10.87% beat Brookfield Renewable Partners' return on equity.
Brookfield Renewable Partners presently has a consensus price target of C$37.50, indicating a potential downside of 12.03%. Emera has a consensus price target of C$60.75, indicating a potential upside of 9.79%. Given Emera's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Emera is more favorable than Brookfield Renewable Partners.
Brookfield Renewable Partners pays an annual dividend of C$1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Emera pays an annual dividend of C$2.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Brookfield Renewable Partners pays out -255.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Emera pays out 64.9% 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.
Emera has higher revenue and earnings than Brookfield Renewable Partners. Brookfield Renewable Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Emera, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
62.0% of Brookfield Renewable Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.2% of Emera shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Emera shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Emera received 274 more outperform votes than Brookfield Renewable Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.20% of users gave Brookfield Renewable Partners an outperform vote while only 59.02% of users gave Emera an outperform vote.
Brookfield Renewable Partners has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Emera has a beta of 0.24, indicating that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Emera beats Brookfield Renewable Partners on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding EMA and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE 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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