SRE vs. PCG, D, PEG, ED, WEC, DTE, AEE, CNP, CMS, and NI Should you be buying Sempra stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sempra include PG&E (PCG), Dominion Energy (D), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), DTE Energy (DTE), Ameren (AEE), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), CMS Energy (CMS), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
PG&E (NYSE:PCG ) and Sempra (NYSE:SRE ) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
PG&E has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sempra has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Sempra has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
PG&E received 389 more outperform votes than Sempra when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.22% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 60.13% of users gave Sempra an outperform vote.
PG&E presently has a consensus target price of $19.75, indicating a potential upside of 6.50%. Sempra has a consensus target price of $82.64, indicating a potential upside of 7.25%. Given PG&E's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sempra is more favorable than PG&E.
78.6% of PG&E shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.7% of Sempra shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of PG&E shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Sempra shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Sempra pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. PG&E pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sempra pays out 54.9% 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 21 consecutive years. Sempra is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, PG&E had 3 more articles in the media than Sempra. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for PG&E and 12 mentions for Sempra. Sempra's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat PG&E's score of 0.38 indicating that PG&E 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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