NG vs. NG.L, JEL, KSK, PPG, SSE, SVT, CNA, UU, DRX, and PNN
Should you be buying National Grid stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Grid include National Grid (NG.L), Jersey Electricity (JEL), KSK Power Ventur plc (KSK.L) (KSK), Plutus PowerGen (PPG), SSE (SSE), Severn Trent (SVT), Centrica (CNA), United Utilities Group (UU), Drax Group (DRX), and Pennon Group (PNN). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
National Grid (LON:NG) and National Grid (LON:NG.L) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
National Grid pays an annual dividend of GBX 59 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. National Grid pays an annual dividend of GBX 49 per share. National Grid pays out 9,833.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. National Grid pays out 115.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
56.8% of National Grid shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of National Grid shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, National Grid's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled National Grid'saverage media sentiment score.
National Grid currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,251.67, indicating a potential upside of 44.00%.
National Grid has a net margin of 11.54% compared to National Grid's net margin of 0.00%. National Grid's return on equity of 7.46% beat National Grid's return on equity.
National Grid has higher revenue and earnings than National Grid. National Grid is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Grid, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
National Grid received 11 more outperform votes than National Grid when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.11% of users gave National Grid an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave National Grid an outperform vote.
Summary
National Grid beats National Grid on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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