PPL vs. EMA, BEPC, BIPC, AQN, RNW, TA, ORA, POM, GMP, and NEXT
Should you be buying Pembina Pipeline stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pembina Pipeline include Emera (EMA), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), TransAlta Renewables (RNW), TransAlta (TA), Aura Minerals (ORA), PolyMet Mining (POM), GMP Capital Inc. (GMP.TO) (GMP), and NextSource Materials (NEXT). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
Emera (TSE:EMA) and Pembina Pipeline (TSE:PPL) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, profitability and risk.
Emera presently has a consensus price target of C$50.44, suggesting a potential upside of 2.93%. Pembina Pipeline has a consensus price target of C$55.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.89%. Given Emera's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Pembina Pipeline is more favorable than Emera.
Emera pays an annual dividend of C$2.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Pembina Pipeline pays an annual dividend of C$2.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Emera pays out 128.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pembina Pipeline pays out 88.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Emera had 6 more articles in the media than Pembina Pipeline. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Emera and 10 mentions for Pembina Pipeline. Emera's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Pembina Pipeline's score of 0.10 indicating that Pembina Pipeline is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pembina Pipeline has a net margin of 20.39% compared to Pembina Pipeline's net margin of 9.69%. Emera's return on equity of 11.65% beat Pembina Pipeline's return on equity.
30.9% of Emera shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.2% of Pembina Pipeline shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Emera shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Pembina Pipeline shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pembina Pipeline received 86 more outperform votes than Emera when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.00% of users gave Pembina Pipeline an outperform vote while only 58.42% of users gave Emera an outperform vote.
Emera has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pembina Pipeline has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Pembina Pipeline has higher revenue and earnings than Emera. Pembina Pipeline is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Emera, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Pembina Pipeline beats Emera on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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