CEPU vs. CIG, CWEN, IDA, AQN, POR, ENIC, ELP, OTTR, BKH, and NEP
Should you be buying Central Puerto stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Central Puerto include CEMIG (CIG), Clearway Energy (CWEN), IDACORP (IDA), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Portland General Electric (POR), Enel Chile (ENIC), Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP), Otter Tail (OTTR), Black Hills (BKH), and NextEra Energy Partners (NEP). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
CEMIG (NYSE:CIG) and Central Puerto (NYSE:CEPU) are both utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking and earnings.
CEMIG pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. Central Puerto pays an annual dividend of $0.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. CEMIG pays out 45.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Central Puerto pays out 7.5% 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.
CEMIG has higher revenue and earnings than Central Puerto. Central Puerto is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CEMIG, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CEMIG has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Central Puerto has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CEMIG received 124 more outperform votes than Central Puerto when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.37% of users gave CEMIG an outperform vote while only 56.60% of users gave Central Puerto an outperform vote.
3.0% of Central Puerto shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Central Puerto shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CEMIG currently has a consensus price target of $2.12, suggesting a potential upside of 13.73%. Central Puerto has a consensus price target of $8.00, suggesting a potential downside of 19.52%. Given Central Puerto's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CEMIG is more favorable than Central Puerto.
In the previous week, CEMIG and CEMIG both had 1 articles in the media. CEMIG's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Central Puerto's score of 0.12 indicating that Central Puerto is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Central Puerto has a net margin of 54.47% compared to Central Puerto's net margin of 14.81%. Central Puerto's return on equity of 22.80% beat CEMIG's return on equity.
Summary
CEMIG beats Central Puerto on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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