PCG vs. SRE, D, PEG, ED, WEC, DTE, CNP, AEE, CMS, and NI
Should you be buying PG&E stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PG&E include Sempra (SRE), Dominion Energy (D), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), DTE Energy (DTE), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
Sempra (NYSE:SRE) and PG&E (NYSE:PCG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
PG&E received 391 more outperform votes than Sempra when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.27% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 60.13% of users gave Sempra an outperform vote.
Sempra pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Sempra pays out 54.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PG&E pays out 3.6% 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. Sempra has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Sempra is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Sempra has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PG&E has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sempra currently has a consensus target price of $82.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.20%. PG&E has a consensus target price of $20.25, indicating a potential upside of 10.35%. Given Sempra's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PG&E is more favorable than Sempra.
Sempra has a net margin of 20.99% compared to Sempra's net margin of 10.05%. Sempra's return on equity of 11.32% beat PG&E's return on equity.
89.7% of Sempra shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of PG&E shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Sempra shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of PG&E shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sempra has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PG&E. PG&E is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sempra, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PG&E had 4 more articles in the media than Sempra. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for PG&E and 9 mentions for Sempra. PG&E's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Sempra's score of 0.92 indicating that Sempra is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Sempra beats PG&E on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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