AGR vs. AEP, D, VST, EIX, DTE, ETR, FE, PPL, ES, and FTS
Should you be buying Avangrid stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avangrid include American Electric Power (AEP), Dominion Energy (D), Vistra (VST), Edison International (EIX), DTE Energy (DTE), Entergy (ETR), FirstEnergy (FE), PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), and Fortis (FTS). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
American Electric Power (NASDAQ:AEP) and Avangrid (NYSE:AGR) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
American Electric Power has a net margin of 14.60% compared to American Electric Power's net margin of 10.80%. Avangrid's return on equity of 11.23% beat American Electric Power's return on equity.
American Electric Power pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Avangrid pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. American Electric Power pays out 65.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avangrid pays out 76.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. American Electric Power has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
Avangrid received 188 more outperform votes than American Electric Power when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.71% of users gave American Electric Power an outperform vote while only 54.96% of users gave Avangrid an outperform vote.
American Electric Power has higher revenue and earnings than Avangrid. Avangrid is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Electric Power, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, American Electric Power had 2 more articles in the media than Avangrid. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for American Electric Power and 10 mentions for Avangrid. American Electric Power's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Avangrid's score of 0.62 indicating that Avangrid is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
American Electric Power has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avangrid has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
American Electric Power currently has a consensus price target of $88.64, indicating a potential downside of 1.78%. Avangrid has a consensus price target of $34.75, indicating a potential downside of 3.50%. Given Avangrid's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe American Electric Power is more favorable than Avangrid.
75.2% of American Electric Power shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.1% of Avangrid shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of American Electric Power shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Avangrid shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
American Electric Power beats Avangrid on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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