PPL vs. DUK, EIX, ETR, FE, ES, PNW, OGE, IDA, POR, and OTTR
Should you be buying PPL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PPL include Duke Energy (DUK), Edison International (EIX), Entergy (ETR), FirstEnergy (FE), Eversource Energy (ES), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), and Otter Tail (OTTR). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.
Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) and PPL (NYSE:PPL) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Duke Energy has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PPL has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Duke Energy currently has a consensus price target of $102.46, suggesting a potential upside of 1.15%. PPL has a consensus price target of $32.45, suggesting a potential upside of 13.64%. Given Duke Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PPL is more favorable than Duke Energy.
In the previous week, Duke Energy had 15 more articles in the media than PPL. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Duke Energy and 10 mentions for PPL. PPL's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Duke Energy's score of 0.55 indicating that Duke Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Duke Energy has higher revenue and earnings than PPL. Duke Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PPL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
65.3% of Duke Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of PPL shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Duke Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of PPL shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Duke Energy has a net margin of 10.78% compared to Duke Energy's net margin of 9.29%. PPL's return on equity of 9.25% beat Duke Energy's return on equity.
Duke Energy pays an annual dividend of $4.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. PPL pays an annual dividend of $1.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Duke Energy pays out 103.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PPL pays out 100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Duke Energy has increased its dividend for 19 consecutive years and PPL has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Duke Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Duke Energy received 22 more outperform votes than PPL when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.55% of users gave PPL an outperform vote while only 53.67% of users gave Duke Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Duke Energy beats PPL on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PPL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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