CMS vs. PCG, SRE, D, PEG, ED, WEC, DTE, AEE, CNP, and NI
Should you be buying CMS Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CMS Energy include PG&E (PCG), Sempra (SRE), Dominion Energy (D), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), DTE Energy (DTE), Ameren (AEE), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
PG&E (NYSE:PCG) and CMS Energy (NYSE:CMS) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
PG&E has higher revenue and earnings than CMS Energy. PG&E is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CMS Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
78.6% of PG&E shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of CMS Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of PG&E shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of CMS Energy shares are held 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.
PG&E currently has a consensus target price of $19.75, indicating a potential upside of 6.53%. CMS Energy has a consensus target price of $64.33, indicating a potential upside of 2.23%. Given CMS Energy's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe PG&E is more favorable than CMS Energy.
CMS Energy has a net margin of 13.19% compared to CMS Energy's net margin of 10.05%. PG&E's return on equity of 12.83% beat CMS Energy's return on equity.
PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. CMS Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. PG&E pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CMS Energy pays out 62.8% 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. CMS Energy has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. CMS Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, PG&E and PG&E both had 14 articles in the media. PG&E's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat CMS Energy's score of 0.67 indicating that CMS Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PG&E received 314 more outperform votes than CMS Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.22% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 62.59% of users gave CMS Energy an outperform vote.
PG&E has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CMS Energy has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CMS Energy beats PG&E on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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