AGR vs. NRG, EBR, CNP, PNW, FTS, BEP, ES, OGE, PPL, and FE
Should you be buying Avangrid stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avangrid include NRG Energy (NRG), Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), Fortis (FTS), Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP), Eversource Energy (ES), OGE Energy (OGE), PPL (PPL), and FirstEnergy (FE). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
NRG Energy (NYSE:NRG) and Avangrid (NYSE:AGR) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
Avangrid has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NRG Energy. NRG Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avangrid, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.7% of NRG Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.1% of Avangrid shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of NRG Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Avangrid shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
NRG Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Avangrid pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. NRG Energy pays out 23.1% 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. NRG Energy has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
NRG Energy presently has a consensus price target of $65.50, suggesting a potential downside of 20.41%. Avangrid has a consensus price target of $34.75, suggesting a potential downside of 3.04%. Given NRG Energy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Avangrid is more favorable than NRG Energy.
In the previous week, NRG Energy had 4 more articles in the media than Avangrid. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for NRG Energy and 13 mentions for Avangrid. Avangrid's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat NRG Energy's score of 0.65 indicating that NRG Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Avangrid has a net margin of 10.80% compared to Avangrid's net margin of 5.76%. Avangrid's return on equity of 42.60% beat NRG Energy's return on equity.
NRG Energy received 412 more outperform votes than Avangrid when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave NRG Energy an outperform vote while only 55.07% of users gave Avangrid an outperform vote.
NRG Energy has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more 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.
Summary
NRG Energy beats Avangrid on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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